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Article: Making headway; Finance committee chiefs confident Senate will pass prescription drug plan.(The Week in Healthcare)(the Senate prepares to take up a proposal to overhaul Medicare)
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- Modern Healthcare
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- June 9, 2003
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Byline: Jeff Tieman
Provider lobbyists and members of both parties are bracing for the big debate this week in the Senate, which is scheduled to take up a controversial but still evolving proposal to overhaul Medicare.
Despite political and economic obstacles that previously stood in the way of adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, Senate Finance Committee leaders said last week that they were confident a bill would pass the full Senate before Congress adjourns for its July 4 recess.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking Democrat Max Baucus of Montana presented their bipartisan framework for reform ...