Medicare Law May Provide a Lift to College Health-Care Budgets

The massive Medicare reform law passed by Congress in November has become a highly charged political lightning rod. Supporters say the act will save 40 million elderly people from the crushing costs of buying the medicines they need. Its detractors argue the law is a giveaway to big drug companies that will cost taxpayers $534-billion over 10 years -- $134-billion more than the figure Congress used in passing the bill.

Lost amid the partisan rhetoric is the law's potential to

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