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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
April 5, 2007
Medicare, the federal program that subsidizes health care for the elderly, is as much responsible for bringing that segment of the population out of poverty as any other single thing. But that progress is threatened by a Medicare payment system that forces doctors to operate in the red. It needs....