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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Medicare Replacement Drug Demonstration Project Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to: (1) require the Secretary to negotiate the lowest possible price for the drugs and biologicals for which payment is made under the Medicare replacement drug demonstration project; and (2) eliminate limitations on funding for such project.</p>]]></text>
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