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Woerner
07-27-2004, 06:50 AM
Medicare is still fine tuning its policies to make sure low income seniors will recieve ample benefits. Some worried that their heirlooms and insurance would exclude them from prescription drug coverage.

"The administration agreed and proposed to count as assets mainly bank accounts, retirement savings and real estate other than a beneficiary's home."


"Nonliquid assets are not going to be counted," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said."

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