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The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined how the “significance” the fiscal year 2007 budget proposal that Bush plans to announce on Monday is “dwarfed by one daunting fact”: 84% of the federal budget is “essentially committed” to interest on the federal deficit, defense and homeland security and entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid...
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According to a December 30, 2005 CMS press release, The delay in the implementation of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 will delay the following changes among many others: As required under current law, claims for physicians’ services on or after January 1 will be paid with the -4.4 percent reduction from 2005 levels....
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