TITLE

If Medicare isn't harnessed

PUB. DATE
September 1996
SOURCE
Nation's Business;Sep96, Vol. 84 Issue 9, p8
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Presents statistics of the increased Medicare costs in the United States if Congress will not reduce the growth rate of Medicare spending.
ACCESSION #
9608300474

Tags: MEDICARE;  COST

 

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