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As the candidates continue to compare and contrast their respective plans for Medicare reform on the campaign trail, we're joined by two experts who will sort out fact from fiction. The federal program provides health insurance to 50 million seniors and disabled Americans.


What will each plan really mean for current and future Medicare recipients? How much will the plans cost?

Stephen Parente, professor of health finance at the University of Minnesota and a former adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, will join The Daily Circuit Thursday.


"What they ideally want to do, if they were to win, is to say, 'OK, let's take a timeout here and see what we have proposed that would make more sense,'" Parente 

David Kendall, senior fellow for health and fiscal policy at Third Way, will also join the discussion.

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As the candidates continue to compare and contrast their respective plans for Medicare reform on the campaign trail, we're joined by two experts who will sort out fact from fiction.

Medicare: Sorting out fact from fiction in proposals

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