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Vicki Gottlich, Senior Policy Attorney for the Center for Medicare Advocacy, will join Congressman Marion Berry (D-AR), Congressman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) in a joint conference call today, January 27, 2009 at 4 p.m. EST, to discuss the Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2009. The Bill would establish one or more drug plans in the traditional Medicare program that would compete with the current, exclusively private Part D drug plans.

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