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...depressingly familiar: more than 60% of us are overweight, and the percentage of us who are considered obese has nearly doubled since 1980. Health-care spending attributable to obesity reached $75 billion in 2003, by some estimates, with taxpayers shelling out more than half of that through Medicare and Medicaid programs. Last month Medicare increased its financial obligation to the problem by announcing it would cover bariatric surgery, a procedure aimed at weight loss that generally costs $25,000 for a simple case. Government researchers estimate that obesity is associated with anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 deaths...
...that Republicans on Capitol Hill will go their own way, say they have designed an agenda that relies on Congress for very little in this election year. Instead, they say, the President will deploy his bully pulpit for such issues as overhauling the entitlement programs--Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid--that eat up half the budget and could balloon as baby boomers retire. By judiciously asserting his influence, Bush believes he can set "an agenda that our party and, one would hope, the country can unite behind," White House communications director Nicolle Wallace said. But the flap over port security...
...president’s broad vision of American championing of the freedom overseas, especially in the Middle East. Howell said that Bush’s domestic proposals, including the competitiveness initiatives, “don’t have the scope of past initiatives like reforming Medicare and Medicaid, like reforming social security...
South Carolina A bill passed the state house and senate requiring Medicaid applicants to present proof of legal residency if asked...
...seniors. GOP strategists point out that the low-income elderly won't get slapped with the doughnut hole charge, removing one potential bloc of angry voters. But Republicans should be more worried about grumbling among middle- and upper-middle-income seniors who aren't even dealing with the current Medicaid to Medicare transition woes. They have leaned more Republican than Democratic in the past, and come November, they might be sick enough of the plan to vote for a different remedy...