CLARIFICATION
California Healthline stated in the Medicare prescription drug benefit story on Friday that AARP officials said the group could "support a 'slimmed-down' Medicare drug benefit that provides assistance for low-income beneficiaries." In fact, AARP would support a slimmed-down benefit if it contained catastrophic coverage and a discount card component in addition to covering low-income beneficiaries.
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