tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 11

MEDICARE OVERHAUL: Physicians, Brace Yourselves for Medicare Reform

A Medicare reform plan could pass as soon as this summer, but you're not likely to see the mass exodus to private health plans that the Bush administration had in mind.Bills may include a PPO option with slightly enhanced benefits such as more catastrophic or preventive-care coverage. But with Grassley and Baucus already producing a draft bill that contains both of the White House's big drug no-nos - private plans offering drug-only coverage and an equal prescription-drug benefit for all beneficiaries - it looks as if President Bush will have to bend if he is to sign a...

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