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Friday, November 30, 2012

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
AARP Opposing All Medicare Cuts
Wall Street Journal
The main lobbying groups for older Americans say they are opposed to any changes in Medicare and Medicaid that would cut benefits or increase costs for those participating in the two government-run health programs. They also oppose cuts to Social ...
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Wall Street Journal
Dialysis company accused of giant Medicare fraud
CNN
But that brief encounter may end up exposing what could be one of the largest Medicare frauds in U.S. history. Dr. Alon Vainer, a medical director at dialysis clinics in Georgia, was discussing clinic procedures with one of the nurses, Daniel Barbir ...
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Froma Harrop: Lobby group should back off about Medicare
Lewiston Sun Journal
As seniors go about their day, a stern female voice says of Medicare and Social Security, "We earned them." She goes on, "If Washington tries to cram decisions about the future of these programs into a last-minute budget deal, we'll all pay the price ...
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The Catch 22 In Efforts to Cut Medicare Spending
Forbes
For those who are extremists about cutting government spending on Medicare, consider this: we taxpayers are getting ripped off by the Medicare program. To me, the solution is not in cutting how much we pay doctors and other providers of healthcare.
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Forbes
Medicare Enrollment Deadline Is Dec. 7 As Changes Take Effect For Drug ...
Hartford Courant
People 65 and older have less than a week to sign up for a Medicare Advantage plan or a prescription-drug plan by the Dec. 7 deadline. The deadline was moved up last year from Dec. 31 to early December. The earlier deadline gives private insurers more ...
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Medicare report finds elective surgeries vary by region
Buffalo News
Among the 30 largest communities in the mid-Atlantic states, rates of PSA testing ranged from 6 percent of male Medicare beneficiaries in Binghamton to 60 percent in Manhasset. Buffalo's rate was 35 percent, near the national average. "We know that the ...
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Medicare patients at risk without doctors' fiscal cliff fix
CNN
Thanks to bad timing, the Medicare fees that doctors are paid for treating seniors has gotten tangled up in the same high-stakes deal-making to avert the fiscal cliff -- across the board tax hikes and spending cuts that kick in January. If Congress ...
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ACA could mean changes for Medicare
Wellington Daily News
Thursday's presentation specifically concerned the effects that the law will have on Medicare, the health care coverage program offered to those 65 years of age and older and those younger than 65 with permanent disabilities. Whether or not one agrees ...
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Older Pennsylvanians Reminded of Medicare Annual Enrollment Deadline
Sacramento Bee
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Older Pennsylvanians are reminded that the deadline for Medicare annual enrollment is Friday, Dec. 7. Individuals are urged to utilize the state Department of Aging's APPRISE program to ...
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What Hurricane Sandy Teaches Us About Medicaid, Medicare
Forbes
With Hurricane Sandy slated to cost the nation more than $50 billion, policymakers are scrambling to figure how to contain the rapidly rising costs of disaster relief. U.S. taxpayers have spent $250 billion over two decades helping states like Florida ...
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Blogs5 new results for Medicare
 
Do Republicans Want to Cut Medicare? -- Daily Intel
By Jonathan Chait
Continuing the theme of Mitt Romney Silver Linings Playbook retrospectives, kicked off by strategist Stuart Stevens's triumphant op-ed about his candidate's great successes, former Romney aides Pete Wehner and Dan Senor* offer their ...
Daily Intel
NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting : CJR
Guarantees or not, that means the reporters on the Medicare beat will have plenty to report on in the weeks ahead—not just to track the twists and turns in negotiations, but to explain the high stakes for both the nation's finances and ordinary ...
CJR
Dems Bide Their Time On Medicare Savings | TPMDC
By Brian Beutler
Faced with the reality that taxes are going up, either automatically or with their tacit assent, Republicans are hoping that they can bank an ideologically suitable down-payment on a broader deficit reduction package in the form of cuts to ...
TPMDC
400 Billion Dollars in Cuts to Medicare? "No. Thank You, President ...
By TomThumb
In July of 2011, President Obama offered Republicans cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The written offer is HERE. Last night, President Obama, made a similar offer to Speaker Boehner. The paper of record described this as a ...
TomThumb's myFDL diary
Viewpoints: Fighting To A Draw On Medicare - Kaiser Health News
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
All Kaiser Health News

Web2 new results for Medicare
 
House Dems: Medicare Cuts Off The Table
House Democrats on Wednesday said they would not agree to any Medicare cuts during the fiscal cliff negotiations. While Democrats have pressured ...
www.breitbart.com/.../House-Dems-Medicare-Cuts-Off-The-T...
Did Social Security and Medicare Crash the Economy? | The ...
From the blog The Exchange: By Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research The talk in Washington these days might lead people ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../did-social-security-medicare-crash-econ...


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