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President Obama is expected to release his budget proposal for fiscal 2012 on Monday, and it’s not a document long-term care providers are happily anticipating. Lobbying intensified over the last several weeks, as advocates for many industries and groups—long-term care certainly among them–pushed statistics favorable to their cause. Some fear a call for significant Medicare and Medicaid cuts in the president’s proposal. That would, no doubt, kick off a round of even more intense lobbying.