President Bush’s $3T FY 2009 Budget Would Freeze Domestic Spending, Seek Nearly $200B In Savings From Federal Health Programs

President Bush on Monday will release a fiscal year 2009 budget request that will total more than $3 trillion and include a large reduction in Medicare spending, the Wall Street Journal reports (McKinnon, Wall Street Journal, 2/1). The budget request would decrease Medicare spending by $178 billion over five years as part of a $200 billion reduction in entitlement program spending (Freking,

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on February 7th, 2008