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Medicare, Medicaid deficits loom over health priorities
Wall Street Journal (subscription required), November 6, 2008
Healthcare played a big role in the presidential campaign, but the Obama administration will face a tough choice: try for a wide-ranging systematic overhaul or make do with piecemeal fixes. Overshadowing any effort to provide health insurance to millions of uninsured families is the huge deficit in Medicare and Medicaid.
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