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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Cost Slowdown Could Close U.S. Budget Gap
Bloomberg
New evidence that the slowdown in health care costs over the past five years is happening not only because of a weak economy comes from the Economic Report of the President, released last week by the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
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Cuts in Social Security and Medicare will hurt
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Social Security and Medicare could be made sustainable by changes in the cap on Social Security income, means-testing higher income recipients for COLA adjustments and decreasing payments as a last resort. Medicare could be strengthened by ...
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OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Medicare showdown set for Wednesday
The Hill (blog)
The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on competing budget proposals, setting up a protracted debate over Medicare and other entitlement programs. The House will vote on several alternative budgets as it moves toward a vote on Rep. Paul Ryan's ...
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Patient groups criticize Dem calls for Medicare price negotiations
The Hill (blog)
"Medicare Part D has exceeded expectations in the breadth of nationwide health plan participation, stable and low-cost premiums for Medicare beneficiaries, and a stunning 'bend in the cost curve' unique in the health sector of the economy. Competition ...
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13 indicted on Medicare/Medicaid prescription fraud charges in Metro Detroit
MLive.com
DETROIT — An extensive federal Medicare and Medicaid prescription fraud dragnet has snagged 13 more suspected participants, the federal government announced Tuesday. Drug Enforcement Administration agents spent much of the morning serving a ...
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Letter: Writer naïve about realities of Medicare
Florida Today
The writer does not realize that what he wants is for Congressman Bill Posey to allow Medicare to put the low-bidder artificial hip in him or his mother. How about we use the low bidder for steroid solution for injections, or has the writer forgotten ...
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Bipartisan cuts to Medicare
Washington Times
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2013 ― Medicare is the single biggest social service provided to Americans and no one wants to see it go away. Medicare plays into a health care system that continually has skyrocketing costs: hospitals, physicians, drugs, and ...
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Washington Times
Bill seeks to ease Medicare audit burden
The Hill (blog)
“While we have not had an opportunity to review the legislation in its entirety, we are discouraged that once again efforts are afoot in Congress that would seek to take the teeth out of recovery programs that have returned more than $3.4 billion to ...
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The effects of ObamaCare on the Medicare population
Auburn Citizen
I left off with the fact that the Medicare population would be the group most negatively affected by the implementation of ObamaCare. This month, I would like to continue to explain how the implementing regulations have begun to affect Medicare recipients.
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House Lawmakers Offer Different Blueprints for Budget, Medicare
California Healthline
On Monday, House Budget Committee Democrats released a fiscal year 2014 budget proposal to compete with budget proposals introduced last week by Budget Committee Republicans and Senate Democrats, The Hill 's "On The Money" reports (Wasson, ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
Potter: Taking advantage of Medicare Advantage
By Wendell Potter
Facing government cuts to one of their cash cows—private Medicare plans—health insurance companies have launched a multi-pronged campaign, financed by the customer premiums, to persuade Congress to keep the cuts from going into ...
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