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Article: The disappearing budget surplus. (FYI).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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The Democrats' logic is they will find a way to pay only the hospital part of Medicare, not the doctors' part, and we think we should pay both."
--Karen Hughes, counselor to President George W Bush, on the president's plan to use the surplus from the Medicare Part A trust fund to pay for the annual deficit in Medicare Part B, which historically has been funded from general revenues.
"What you've got going on here is a high-level game of budget chicken, in which both sides are waiting to see who's going to screw up and be blamed for having crossed that line."
--Leon Panetta, former director of the Office of Management and Budget and chief of ...