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Parties Spar over Ads for Medicare Drug Benefit

NPR

By Julie Rovner

Published October 29, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

A controversial election-season ad campaign -- substantially underwritten by drug companies -- advocates the much-debated proposal to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

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