Senate Rejects House Budget Proposal: ; Plan Would Have Given Medicare Recipients a Subsidy to Buy Insurance

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WASHINGTON - Joined by several moderate Republicans, Democrats controlling the Senate rejected a controversial House budget plan for turning Medicare into a voucher-like program for future beneficiaries.

Five Republicans joined every Democrat in killing the measure, which calls for transforming Medicare into a program in which future beneficiaries - people now 54 years old and younger - would be given a subsidy to purchase health insurance rather than have the government directly pay hospital and doctor bills.

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Senate Rejects House Budget Proposal: ; Plan Would Have Given Medicare Recipients a Subsidy to Buy Insurance

Democrats said the GOP plan would "end Medicare as we know it," and they made it the central issue in a special election Tuesday in which Democrats seized a longtime GOP district in western New York, rattling Rep...

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