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By
ROBERT PEAR
New York Times
WASHINGTON -- The chief Medicare actuary, Richard S. Foster, told Congress on
Wednesday that last June he provided the White House with data indicating that
prescription drug legislation would cost 25 percent to 50 percent more than the
Bush administration's public estimates. That information did not make its way
to Congress for six more months.
Mr. Foster said he had shared his cost estimates with Doug Badger, the president's
special assistant for health policy, and with James C. Capretta, associate director
of the White House Office of Management and Budget. But he said that Thomas A.
Scully, who was then administrator of the Medicare program, directed him to withhold
the information from Congress, citing orders from the White House in one instance.
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