The proposal to expand Medicare to include people aged 55 and older as part of an alternative to creating the public option may have expanded support for the Senate version of the overhaul bill, the Los Angeles Times reports. "Despite the enthusiasm, the proposal must clear at least one big...
In exchange for accepting a proposed compromise on a public option in the health bill, liberal Democratic Senators are hoping to win expansions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, The New York Times reports. "One of the changes being pushed by the liberals would lower the age of eligibility...
The Washington Post: "Senate Republicans lost their first major challenge to a Democratic plan to overhaul the health-care system, as the chamber voted Thursday to reject a GOP proposal to strip the package of nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts, its most important source of financing." The...
Bloomberg: Senate Democratic leaders, who are battling Republican attempts to "block Medicare spending cuts, face an even bigger headache: overcoming concern among members of their own party about the program's future funding." President Barack Obama has proposed using hundreds of billions of...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Kate Steadman writes about the findings of a highly anticipated independent agency report. "Move over McAllen, Texas. When it comes to Medicare spending, you've been ousted by Lubbock" (11/2). Read entire story. This information was reprinted from...
Bloomberg: Senate Democratic leaders, who are battling Republican attempts to "block Medicare spending cuts, face an even bigger headache: overcoming concern among members of their own party about the program's future funding." President Barack Obama has proposed using hundreds of billions of...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Kate Steadman writes about the findings of a highly anticipated independent agency report. "Move over McAllen, Texas. When it comes to Medicare spending, you've been ousted by Lubbock" (11/2). Read entire story. This information was reprinted from...
Bloomberg: Senate Democratic leaders, who are battling Republican attempts to "block Medicare spending cuts, face an even bigger headache: overcoming concern among members of their own party about the program's future funding." President Barack Obama has proposed using hundreds of billions of...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Kate Steadman writes about the findings of a highly anticipated independent agency report. "Move over McAllen, Texas. When it comes to Medicare spending, you've been ousted by Lubbock" (11/2). Read entire story. This information was reprinted from...
The New York Times: "In a day of desultory debate on sweeping health care legislation, senators appealed to two potent political constituencies ... with Democrats seeking additional medical benefits for women and Republicans vowing to preserve and protect Medicare for older Americans. The...
Efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud heat up while some experts say more should be done. Reuters reports that the "The Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services launched a special strike force in Miami in 2007 to combat Medicare fraud in South Florida and...
Geisinger Health System is one of only six healthcare organizations in the United States invited by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University to participate in a new pilot program, Medicare Innovations Collaborative (Med-IC).
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Geisinger Health System is one of only six healthcare organizations in the United States invited by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University to participate in a new pilot program, Medicare Innovations Collaborative (Med-IC).
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...withholdings as a healthy nonsmoker? I try to stay healthy. I go to the break room at work with my fruit and bottled water and see 300lb people eating extremely high fat meals and smokers chain smoking away.
When the paychecks come. The same amount is withheld from our paychecks. They will...
My father is a senior citizen. He has both medicare and medicaid. He is moving from New York to Maryland. Does he need to apply again for health insurance in Maryland or his already active coverage in New York will be enough to start his medical care in Maryland.