The nation's health care spending will jump by 6.1 percent next year as the big coverage expansion in President Barack Obama's overhaul kicks in, government experts predicted Wednesday.
The Obama campaign's new ad is a response to a recent commercial by Romney accusing Obama of taking more than $700 billion from Medicare to help pay for the president's health care law. It also seeks to reinforce a Democratic line of attack launched against the GOP presidential ticket that...
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