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Obama Endorses New Medicare Tax, More Drugmaker Fees (Update1)

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Dec 311969

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama proposed the first Medicare tax on unearned income including capital gains, while raising fees on drugmakers and scaling back a levy on high-end benefits as part of a new plan to overhaul the nationâ??s health-care system.

Obama Endorses New Medicare Tax, Drugmaker Fees in Health Plan

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Dec 311969

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama proposed the first Medicare tax on unearned income, while raising fees on drugmakers and scaling back a levy on high-end benefits as part of a new plan to overhaul the nationâ??s health-care system.

Rising Medicare costs linked to the growth in common costly chronic conditions: Study

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Dec 311969

Today, two of the nation's leading health and fiscal policy experts discussed how to reign in rising health care costs in Medicare in light of a new Health Affairs study that shows rising Medicare costs in the nation's health care system are linked to the growth in several common costly chronic conditions, such as diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, and kidney disease.

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