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Article: Medicare drug compromise sought
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- July 12, 2000
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WASHINGTON - In an attempt to reach compromise on a politically
charged issue, the chairman of a key Senate panel is drafting a
Medicare prescription drug plan that would share costs between the
government and senior citizens. Senate Finance Committee Chairman
William Roth, R-Del., planned to circulate the proposal Wednesday in
hopes of reaching a middle ground between President Clinton's large
new government entitlement plan and the House GOP's bill based on
subsidized private insurance.
Democratic and Republican sources, speaking Tuesday night on
condition of anonymity, said that under Roth's emerging plan the
government would share prescription drug expenses with Medicare
recipients ...