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A Question of Drug-Making Donors
Rep. James C. Greenwood (R-Pa.), right, chairing a subcommittee hearing on hospital billing, listens to counsel Tony Cooke. (Ken Cedeno -- Bloomberg News)
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Experts Dispute Remark That Living Wills Save Money
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said this week that encouraging senior citizens to write living wills could dramatically reduce Medicare's skyrocketing health care costs.

Doctors Are Warned on Fetus Care
The Bush administration issues guidelines advising physicians and hospitals that they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion.

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