[Mb-civic] NYTimes.com: New White House Estimate Lifts Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billion

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NATIONAL | February  9, 2005

New White House Estimate Lifts Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billion
By ROBERT PEAR

The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/national/09medicare.html?ex=1108616400&en=ad955dca9921a8cf&ei=5070



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