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In 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act added a prescription drug benefit for senior citizens—the much-debated and often-controversial Part D. Is Medicare Part D a good or bad program overall? It may not be possible to answer that question, since the drug benefit has positive as well as negative aspects. Economists Gary Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber have put out an important new paper examining the effects of Part D in great detail. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Policy Innovation distills their findings.

House and Senate Medicare conferees are scrambling to find asolution to the problem of senior dumping  - which will occurwhen former employers drop current retirees into the proposed newgovernment entitlement. Roughly 10 million seniors have nocoverage. It is not too late for Congress to help those in needwithout hurting those who are not.

Welcome to Competition Currents, a monthly newsletter for Greenberg Traurig clients and colleagues highlighting significant recent developments in global antitrust and competition law.

FTC proposed new rule that would prevent employers from entering non-compete agreements with their employees. Non-compete agreements prohibit employees from working for a competing employer or starting a competing business, typically within a set geographic area.

Yes, but many regulatory obstacles remain.