title: Budget backlash. Disparate forces in healthcare unite to decry Bush's healthcare budget for 2008; 'a remarkable leap backward to the stone age'.
abstract: Healthcare lobbyists representing different and, sometimes, conflicting interest groups all have an issue to rail against: President Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion budget, which would take huge chunks out of some federal healthcare programs. Officials like Leslie Norwalk, right, the CMS' acting administrator, support the $700 billion of that proposed budget that would fund Medicare and Medicaid.
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