Obama Deficit Plan With Medicare, Medicaid "Adjustments" Due Sept. 19
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
President Obama says during Sept. 8 jobs speech that he will release a plan to reduce the deficit "by making modest adjustments to health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid."
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