Obama Deficit Plan With Medicare, Medicaid “Adjustments” Due Sept. 19
Executive Summary
President Obama will release a deficit reduction plan Sept. 19 that includes “modest adjustments” to Medicare and Medicaid as well as tax code reforms, he announced during a speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8.
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