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10:00Medicare Drug Benefit

Guest host: Andrea Seabrook

A panel discusses who is benefiting from Medicare's new drug plan, who isn't and why.

Guests

Julie Rovner, health policy correspondent for National Public Radio, author of "Health Care Policy and Politics A-Z," and contributing editor for National Journal's CongressDaily.

Robert Hayes, president and general counsel, Medicare Rights Center

Leslie Norwalk, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

11:00Boris Akunin: "The Death of Achilles" (Random House)

Guest host: Andrea Seabrook

Russia's best-selling novelist presents the latest book in his series of detective stories featuring a 19th century gentleman sleuth named Erast Petrovich Fandorin.

Guests

Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, a philologist, critic, essayist, translator, and best-selling international novelist.

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