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News bites: Health budgets edition
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02/14/12 07:24 AM ET
Obama's budget projects that Medicare spending will double over the coming decade, from $478 billion this year to almost $1 trillion in 2022, Bloomberg reports.
The healthcare law's high-risk pools are still struggling to find enrollees, Politico reports.
The appetite for soda taxes has fizzled over the past two years, Stateline.org reports.
Some cities, however, have found a new cash cow in medical marijuana dispensaries, reports The New York Times.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have discovered the autoimmune properties of a hydrangea root extract used in Chinese medicine for 2,000 years.
