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3m joined them today in 2003 when the bush administration was trying to a prescription drug benefit many were providing such a benefit and the administration offer aid subsidy so they would continue. they carefully calibrated this to make sure this was the least amount they had to give the companies to hold on to their retirees. we were seeing offers to retirees was dropping. the subsidies was an incentive to get employers to stop dropping the benefit. reporter: the obama white house reversed that as a loophole now being closed. head of congressional budget office at the time said everyone saw it as a way to save the government money. it was cheaper to have them in the private plan if you put them on the government books it cost twice as much and comes out of taxpayers dollars. reporter: literally twice as much the medicare drug benefit costs more than $1200

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