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Article: New year, new faces, new agenda; Healthcare issues are expected to draw more attention in D.C., but economic, foreign policy issues leave plenty of question marks.
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- Modern Healthcare
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- January 10, 2005
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Byline: Tony Fong
Despite the war in Iraq and an expected full-scale campaign from the Bush administration to revamp Social Security, unfinished healthcare business from the last congressional session and festering problems within the industry will likely force lawmakers to pay more attention to healthcare in 2005.
A year ago, the administration and Republicans in Congress were basking in the glow of the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. Fresh off the bruising effort to get the landmark legislation enacted, the consensus was that Congress had accomplished its major healthcare agenda item and with the nation at war and the upcoming ...