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Negotiations Stalled on House-Senate Package That Would Avert Medicare Pay Cuts for Doctors
The Republican plan to pay for the package, which includes extending a payroll tax cut, calls for a premium increase for upper-income Medicare patients that has been rejected by Democrats. Democrats have offered to trim unemployment benefits by six weeks.
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