The Journal asked Representative Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairmanof the House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Edward M.Kennedy (D-Mass.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education,Labor, and Pensions Committee, to respond to the following question:"If you were to rewrite the recently passed Medicare bill, howwould you change it?" Their responses follow.
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