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HOUSE GIVES MEDICARE REPRIEVE, MEDICAID STILL ON CHOPPING BLOCK
Published on Thu Oct 24, 2013
The budget resolution approved, 215-212, by the House March 20 spares Medicare from cuts of more than $200 billion over 10 years that were contained in the House Budget Committee’s original version. But the plan still cuts Medicaid by more than $90 billion, and mandates decreases of $2 billion in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill now features [...]