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Wall Street Journal (subscription required), February 26, 2008

The most serious domestic policy problem this country faces is the rising costs of Medicare, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis. In this Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Goodman presents his ideas on how to control the problem.

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