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Obama Proposes Giving Medicare Panel Recomendations Force of Law

By | 06.03.09 | 4:06 pm

Here’s another fascinating tidbit from yesterday’s health reform message from the White House to Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.): President Obama is proposing that the recommendations passed down by the advisory panel on Medicare payment policy take effect without congressional action.

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