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Should We Substitute ObamaCare for Medicare? Daily Beast Roy argues for using Obamacare as a partial substitute for Medicare. Roy's idea seems a feasible concept. It also raises a very important and difficult question. But first, the key paragraphs: Obama's victory means that Obamacare will be implemented ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast

10 things Medicare won't tell you MarketWatch The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, the federal agency that administers Medicare and other health programs, got smacked with cuts early this month as lawmakers failed to avert the sequester, $1.2 trillion in spending cuts designed to ... See all stories on this topic » MarketWatch

Rubio presses HHS to soften Medicare Advantage cuts The Hill (blog) "On behalf of my constituents in Florida who rely on Medicare Advantage to receive their Medicare benefits, I am deeply concerned that if CMS fails to reverse its preliminary decision on this critically important issue, many MA enrollees may experience ... See all stories on this topic »

Could Slowing Health Care Costs Save Medicare? DailyFinance Yet past predictions about financial trouble haven't resulted in Medicare's failure. Back in 1997, the Medicare Trustees' report set 2001 as the program's insolvency date. But shortly thereafter, a new law was passed that cut back on the expansion of ... See all stories on this topic »

Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Medical Center brace for Medicare cuts Post-Bulletin "Both Medicare beneficiaries and providers will feel real pain from the cuts. Sequestration will widen the already enormous gap between what Medicare pays and the actual cost of caring for seniors," said Jeremy Lazarus, the president of the American ... See all stories on this topic »

Medicare Advantage Cuts Will Cost Recipients Thousands Newsmax.com Obamacare calls for reductions in Medicare payments of $716 billion through 2022,with a large portion of the cuts coming through payments for the advantage plan, which allow beneficiaries to use Medicare dollars to choose an outside, privately-run ... See all stories on this topic »

What's The Price? Simple Question, Complicated Answer In Medicare Kaiser Health News I wrote to Medicare a while back, asking for a price. I know nothing is simple in the world of health care costs, but I just needed one number, a number Medicare uses all the time, I supposed, to calculate payments to doctors and hospitals. Here's what ... See all stories on this topic »

Stuart Varney: Obama's Medicare Plan Laughable Fox Business Medicare is committed to paying adult 42 trillion dollars that it does not have so -- asked to believe that 400 billion. Will save Medicare. Now look at some of the details. How does the president -- 400 billion dollars well one thought of it 120 ... See all stories on this topic »

Raise Social Security and Medicare (FICA) Taxes on the Rich, Don't Feed the ... Truth-Out Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Edsall pens a thorough debunking of arguments for austerity. In particular, he provides a detailed analysis that lacerates the arguments made for cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits. The only significant ... See all stories on this topic » Truth-Out

Lawmakers still divided over accepting federal Medicare plan ksl.com SALT LAKE CITY — During the final days of the Legislative session, the discussion of Medicare in Utah has continued to bring divided opinions. On Friday, a bill was proposed to bar the state from accepting federal money. The federal government ... See all stories on this topic » ksl.com

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