Medicare Perspectives: MEDICARE Rx: EVEN WHEN IT'S OVER, IT WON'T BE OVER
Medicare legislation to add a prescription-drug benefit and inject more private health-plan competition into the program has passed both houses of Congress. But uncertainties still abound, starting with whether a conference committee can bridge differences between the two bills to keep more liberal senators and more conservative House members from bolting when a final vote arrives.
If and when a law is enacted, there still are future cliffhangers aplenty. Stakeholders will continue to struggle over rules setting up the new programs. And since many of the mechanisms the legislation proposes are new and untried, advocates on all sides will...
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