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Annual Report Shows Medicare on a Slippery Slope
Submitted by Chris Middleton on 3.1.2003
Observers got a jolt when Medicare's Board of Trustees released its annual report on March 17 showing the program in worse shape than expected. Despite a decrease in physician fees of 5.4 percent in 2002, Medicare expenses shot up by 8.5 percent to $266 billion.
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