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Mon 10 Oct 2008Cowen buys time with FF rebels in medical card crisis
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen's appeal for "time and space" to find a solution to the medical card controversy has helped to quell a growing rebellion among Fianna Fáil backbenchers.
Mr Cowen yesterday said the budget proposal to end universal provision of medical cards to over-70s would not proceed in its current form, which he said did not have "wider public acceptance".
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