Budget backlash. Disparate forces in healthcare unite to decry Bush's healthcare budget for 2008; 'a remarkable leap backward to the stone age'
DoBias, M.
Modern Healthcare 37(7): 6-7 16 1
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7480 PMID: 17432249 Document Number: 608082
Healthcare lobbyists representing different and, sometimes, conflicting interest groups all have an issue to rail against: President Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion budget, which would take huge chunks out of some federal healthcare programs. Officials like Leslie Norwalk, right, the CMS' acting administrator, support the $700 billion of that proposed budget that would fund Medicare and Medicaid.