Congress passed must-do legislation Thursday to permit the government to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars more to meet its obligations, averting a first-ever government default that had loomed as early as mid-February.
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• Leave a CommentSome TRICARE beneficiaries will pay higher co-pays for prescription drugs beginning Feb. 1
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• Leave a CommentFormer landscape architect Jon Myhre never imagined he would be living out his days in a trailer park on mostly his Social Security income — and loving it.
• Leave a CommentThe Obama administration took new steps Wednesday toward implementing the individual mandate in its signature healthcare law, downplaying the scope of the unpopular provision by stressing rules that allow exemptions from the requirement to purchase insurance.
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