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Slow Recovery Worsens Financial State of Medicare

The estimates, in the annual report by the Medicare trustees, were immediately swept up into the already inflamed political battle over federal spending, debt and the future of entitlement programs.

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Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines

The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government center to help create medicines.

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Economic View: Adding Clarity to Health Care Reform

Even as state lawsuits swirl around the health care law, Congress could take several steps now to improve the legislation.

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