The following is a list of briefings, documents, and publications that have been ranked by the Alliance for Health Reform in
order of relevance, 10 being "Exclusively Related" to the issue, to 5 being "Somewhat Related" to the issue.
Webcasts, transcripts and resource materials can be downloaded for each briefing listed.
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| Rank | Type | Description |
| 10 | Briefing | MEDICARE PART D: What Now, What Next?, 11/5/2007
Close to 24 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part D coverage for prescription drugs in the first two enrollment cycles. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, more than 75 percent of beneficiaries are satisfied with the program. But not all analysts and beneficiary advocates have pronounced the program a success in providing prescription drug coverage to the targeted group. How are dually-eligible beneficiaries, those eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, faring? Do beneficiaries continue to fill prescriptions when they reach the “doughnut hole” and the full cost comes out of their pockets? The Commonwealth Fund and the Alliance for Health Reform sponsored this briefing to address these and related questions.
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| 10 | Briefing | Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage:
Policies and Practices Across Several Health Systems, 6/23/2006
The Medicare prescription drug program offers coverage for prescription drugs through competing private plans, within a framework established by law and through rules established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In contrast, other countries, including Australia, the UK, and Canada, provide similar prescription drug programs, but within different regulatory structures. How do these countries decide which drugs will be approved and included in their prescription drug programs for the elderly and disabled?
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| 10 | Briefing | Making Sense of Medicare's Drug Benefit: Information and Resources to Help Beneficiaries, 11/7/2005
To help understand the basics of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, the nonpartisan Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation held a briefing especially for congressional staff, including district and state staff, but also of interest to others. Panelists were Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Medicare Policy Project; Jack Vogelsong of Pennsylvania’s State Health Insurance and Assistance Program; Beatrice Disman of the New York Region of the Social Security Administration; and Julie Goon of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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| 10 | Briefing | Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit: The Stories Ahead, 9/27/2005
Medicare beneficiaries can start signing up for prescription drug plans on November 15. Already, health plans have announced that they will be spending up to $80 million each to promote their offerings. The federal government and nonprofit groups are well into a massive effort to educate the public. But beneficiaries and those they rely on still have many questions about the program. The Alliance for Health Reform sponsored a briefing on Sept. 27 to help reporters with their coverage of the new benefit's implementation and offer story ideas.
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| 9 | Document | Guterman Presentation - Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Progress Report, 11/5/2007
- Source: Guterman Presentation (PowerPoint: 125 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Rother Presentation - Strengthening Medicare Part D, 11/5/2007
- Source: Rother Presentation (PowerPoint: 404 kb)
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| 9 | Document | McCutcheon Presentation - Medicare Part D: What Now, What Next? CMS Continues to Improve Part D, 11/5/2007
- Source: McCutcheon Presentation (PowerPoint: 691 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Summer Presentation - Medicare Part D: How Vulnerable Populations are Faring, 11/5/2007
- Source: Summer Presentation (PowerPoint: 140 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Medicare Part D: Improving Healthcare and Lowering Costs for Beneficiaries, 9/1/2007
- Source: PhRMA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 50 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Improving the Medicare Part D Program for the Most Vulnerable Beneficiaries, 5/1/2007
- Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 346 kb)
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| 9 | Document | The Facts: Medicare Part D and Prescription Drug Prices, 1/9/2007
- Source: American Enterprise Institute (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 43 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Medicare and Prescription Drug- Fact Sheet, 11/1/2006
- Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 381 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Steven Morgan Presentation: Well-Designed Drug Review Processes Can Improve Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006
- Source: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, U. of British Columbia (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 383 kb)
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| 9 | Briefing Transcript | Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006
- Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 227 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Tanisha Carino Presentation: The U.S. Perspective - Medicare Part D, 6/23/2006
- Source: Avalere Health (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 245 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Medicare's New Adventure: the Part D Drug Benefit, 3/1/2006
- Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 133 kb)
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| 9 | Document | The Landscape of Private Firms Offering Prescription Drug Coverage in 2006 , 3/1/2006
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 680 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Tricia Neuman Presentation: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 75 kb)
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| 9 | Briefing Transcript | Making Sense of Medicare's Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005
- Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 208 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Julie Goon Presentation: CMS Information and Resources for the Medicare Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005
- Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 1,271 kb)
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| 9 | Document | Mark Benoff Presentation: Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit, 9/27/2005
- Source: Cambridge Pharma Consultancy (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 126 kb)
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| 9 | Briefing Transcript | Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit, 9/27/2005
- Source: Kaisernetwork.org (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 164 kb)
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| 9 | Other Publication | Sourcebook 2004 - Chapter 5: Medicare, 9/1/2004
This chapter from the Alliance sourcebook, “Covering Health Issues, 2004” presents key facts, background, story ideas, experts and websites on the subject of Medicare. (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 197 kb)
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| 9 | Offsite Document | Evidence-Based and Value-Based Formulary Guidelines, 2/1/2004
- Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
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| 9 | Offsite Document | The Efficient Use of Pharmaceuticals: Does Europe Have Any Lessons for a Medicare Drug Benefit?, 6/1/2003
- Source: Health Affairs (Unknown File Type)
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| 9 | Offsite Document | Navigating the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Coverage Program, 6/14/2006
- Source: United Cerebral Palsy (Unknown File Type)
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| 9 | Offsite Document | HHS Announces More Than 90 Percent Of Medicare Beneficiaries Will Have Access To A Lower Premiu, 9/27/2007
- Source: US Department of Health and Human Services (Unknown File Type)
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| 9 | Offsite Document | Drug Industry Is on Defensive As Power Shifts, 11/24/2006
- Source: New York Times Online (Unknown File Type)
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| 9 | Offsite Document | The Next Steps: Strategies to Improve the Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy, 1/1/2007
- Source: National Council on Aging Adobe Acrobat PDF
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| 8 | Document | Private Medicare Drug Plans: High Expenses and Low Rebates Increase The Costs of Medicare..., 10/1/2007
- Source: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - Majority Staff (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 189 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Testimony of Vicki Gottlich - Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, 5/2/2007
- Source: US Senate Finance Committee Testimony (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 112 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics, 2007- Fact Sheet, 1/1/2007
- Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 135 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Medicare Drug Plans Strong and Growing, 1/1/2007
- Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 97 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Coverage through the “Doughnut Hole” Grows Scarcer in 2007, 11/1/2006
- Source: Families USA (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 546 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Part D Payment System- payment basics, 9/1/2006
- Source: MedPac (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 807 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Sourcelist: Reviewing Prescription Drug Coverage, 6/23/2006
- Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 41 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Low-Income Assistance Under the Medicare Drug Benefit, 5/1/2006
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 489 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Baseline Comparison of the Part D Low-Income Subsidy and MSP Eligibility and Enrollment Rules , 5/1/2006
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 301 kb)
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| 8 | Document | The Growth of Private Plans in Medicare, 3/1/2006
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 609 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: An Overview of Implementation for Dual Eligibles, 2/6/2006
- Source: Congressional Research Service (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 99 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Sourcelist: Making Sense of Medicare's Drug Benefit, 11/7/2005
- Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 61 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Sourcelist: Implementing the Medicare Drug Benefit, 9/27/2005
- Source: Alliance for Health Reform (Word Document: 101 kb)
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| 8 | Document | Alan Weil Presentation: Medicaid Waivers, the MMA & States, 4/4/2005
- Source: National Academy for State Health Policy (PowerPoint: 96 kb)
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| 8 | Offsite Document | Medicare-Administered Drug Benefit Would be More Affordable, Comprehensive, Stable than Current, 10/1/2007
- Source: Consumers Union (Unknown File Type)
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| 8 | Offsite Document | Smith and Bingaman Push Measures that Provide Assistance to Low-Income..., 4/12/2007
- Source: US Senate Aging Committee (Unknown File Type)
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| 8 | Offsite Document | The Role of Beneficiary-Centered Assignment for Medicare Part D, 6/1/2007
- Source: MedPAC Adobe Acrobat PDF
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| 8 | Offsite Document | Success of Drug Plan Challenges Democrats, 11/26/2006
- Source: Washington Post (Unknown File Type)
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| 8 | Offsite Document | Seniors' Opinions About Medicare Rx: Second Year Update, 10/1/2007
- Source: Medicare Today Adobe Acrobat PDF
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| 7 | Document | One Year In: Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies and Medicare Part D, 10/1/2007
- Source: North Carolina Rural Health Research & Policy Analysis Center and The RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 28 kb)
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| 7 | Document | Assessing Medicare Prescription Drug Plans in Four States: Balancing Cost and Access, 8/1/2006
- Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 129 kb)
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| 7 | Document | Announcement of Calender Year 2007 Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates and Payment Policies , 4/1/2006
- Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 22 kb)
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| 7 | Document | A Benefit for Insurers , 3/31/2006
- Source: The New York Times (Word Document: 39 kb)
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| 7 | Document | Dual Eligibles: Medicaid's Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries , 2/1/2006
- Source: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 118 kb)
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| 7 | Document | Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payments Update (RHQDAPU), 1/1/2006
- Source: CMS (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 30 kb)
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| 7 | Document | Facilitating Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs and Medicare Part D, 9/1/2005
- Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 364 kb)
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| 7 | Document | Medicare Drug Cost Estimates: What Congress Knows Now, 4/28/2005
- Source: The Heritage Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 390 kb)
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| 7 | Offsite Document | US Election: Implications of Democratic control for healthcare, 9/1/2006
- Source: Goldman Sachs (Unknown File Type)
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| 7 | Offsite Document | Pelosi – One the Issues – Healthcare, 11/1/2006
- Source: Pelosi Official Web sight (Unknown File Type)
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| 7 | Offsite Document | Experiences with Medicare Part D Among Enrollees and Non-Enrollees, 11/1/2006
- Source: AARP (Unknown File Type)
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| 7 | Offsite Document | Medicare Audits Show Problems in Private Plans, 10/9/2007
- Source: The New York Times (Unknown File Type)
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| 7 | Offsite Document | Medicare Expects to Recover $4 Billion from Part D Plans..., 10/5/2007
- Source: CMS (Unknown File Type)
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| 7 | Offsite Document | Explaining Health Care Reform: Key Changes to the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Coverage Gap, 3/1/2010
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Unknown File Type)
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| 6 | Briefing | Prospects for Health Care: Where Will New Congressional Leadership Take Us?, 12/8/2006
Come January, we can expect to see some new approaches to health legislation. Sen. Harry Reid, incoming Senate majority leader, says one of his top three priorities will be more funding for stem cell research. House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi wants a vote early on to roll back the prohibition against the federal government negotiating prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. And these are just two of the health issues likely to be debated in the new Congress. The White House too will have a definite voice in the debates to come.
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| 6 | Document | Libby Roughead Presentation: Australia's National Medicines Policy, 6/23/2006
- Source: University of South Australia (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 9,267 kb)
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| 6 | Document | P. Kanavos Presentation: The European Experience in Drug Policy, Efficiency & Cost Containment, 6/23/2006
- Source: London School of Economics (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 485 kb)
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| 6 | Document | Maximizing MSP Enrollment with Part D: Lessons from Three States, 5/1/2006
- Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 287 kb)
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| 6 | Document | How Applicant Data for the Part D LIS Can Boost Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs, 5/1/2006
- Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 298 kb)
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| 6 | Document | Rodney Whitlock Presentation: Understanding Medicaid, 4/4/2005
- Source: Senate Finance Committee Republican Staff (PowerPoint: 109 kb)
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| 6 | Document | 2005 International Symposium on Health Care Policy: Descriptions of Health Care Systems, 1/1/2005
- Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 136 kb)
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| 6 | Document | Promising Strategies for Medicare Savings Program Enrollment, 12/1/2004
- Source: State Solutions (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 269 kb)
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| 6 | Document | Medicare Drug Debacle , 6/27/2003
- Source: Cato Institute (Word Document: 25 kb)
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| 6 | Offsite Document | Opening Doors on Disease Management, 8/16/2006
- Source: HealthDecisions.org – Health Savings Accounts (Unknown File Type)
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| 6 | Offsite Document | Healthcare Industries Still Amongst Most Popular Targets for More Regulation but Support for Re, 11/14/2006
- Source: The Harris Poll People- Healthcare News (Unknown File Type)
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| 6 | Offsite Document | Health’s Ailment; A new Congress may patch up a few problems, but don’t expect a cure, 11/20/2006
- Source: U.S. News & World Report (Unknown File Type)
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| 6 | Offsite Document | Sen. Baucus to Tackle Health Care Costs, 11/16/2006
- Source: Forbes.com (Unknown File Type)
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| 5 | Document | The Medicare Advantage Program: Statement of Peter R. Orszag, 6/28/2007
- Source: Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 673 kb)
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| 5 | Document | Kaiser Health Disparities Report- A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health , 1/22/2007
- Source: Kaiser Family Founation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 85 kb)
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| 5 | Document | The U.S. Health Care Divide: Disparities in Primary Care Experiences by Income, 4/1/2006
- Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 216 kb)
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| 5 | Document | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Update on the Quality of American Health Care , 4/1/2006
- Source: The Commonwealth Fund (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 191 kb)
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| 5 | Document | Has Medicare Been Privatized? Implications of the Medicare Modernization Act, 2/8/2006
- Source: Center for American Progress (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 187 kb)
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| 5 | Document | Tricia Neuman Presentation: Medicare: The Basics, 5/16/2005
- Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (Adobe Acrobat PDF: 66 kb)
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| 5 | Offsite Document | Democratic leaders eye FDA reforms, 11/16/2006
- Source: The Executive (Unknown File Type)
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