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Hospitals push age hike for Medicare

Seek to avoid cuts in federal payments

As the deficit reduction “supercommittee’’ begins scouring ledgers for $1.2 trillion, hospital leaders plan to lobby Congress to shift the burden onto their elderly patients.

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