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President George W. Bush meets with Iraqi physicians and Dr. Khudair Abbas, the Iraqi Interim Minister of Health, in the Roosevelt Room Monday, Dec. 15, 2003. Dr. Abbas is sitting at the President's right. The President and the visiting physicians discussed the improvements being made to Iraq's health system, including the establishing of a $950 million health care budget for 2004. Saddam Hussein's regime provided $16 million for the Ministry of Health in 2002, a 90 percent reduction from a decade earlier.
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