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Providing Cancer Clinical Trials for Medicare Beneficiaries Less than three percent of cancer patients participate in clinical trials of new therapies. Many scientists believe that higher participation could lead to the faster development of therapies for more ....

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.... Medicare) would run the demonstration, it would be funded by specified receipts from national tobacco legislation and, thus, would not draw upon Medicare's Hospital Insurance (HI) or Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) trust funds. The proposal includes an evaluation after three years to consider whether to expand the demonstration. Aid for the territories: The budget proposes $153 million in increased funding under CHIP for Puerto Rico and the other four territories, fulfilling the President's promise to provide more equitable funding for children's health care in the insular areas ....