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This week on NOW:
With the US government projecting a $426 billion deficit this year, critics are blaming some of the red ink on the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which President Bush signed into law in December 2003. In 2004, when NOW first reported on the story, the original cost of the bill had ballooned from $400 billion to $534 billion. Where does it stand today? On Friday, July 8, 2005 at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), NOW looks at what the Medicare law is costing America and reports on developments in two other key issues it has examined in the past including: the controversy surrounding treatment of detainees at Guantanamo; and the remarkable Earth Conservation Corps, which is transforming the lives of young people while cleaning up one of America’s poorest neighborhoods.
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