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Saturday, April 27, 2013

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News10 new results for Medicare
 
Wages Subject to Social Security Tax
Wall Street Journal
Now get ready for a new twist: Starting this year, many upper-income taxpayers have to pay an additional 0.9% Medicare tax on earned income above a certain threshold. The threshold generally is $200,000, but it's $250,000 for married couples who file ...
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The solution Medicare is shutting down
Washington Post
When Ken Coburn has visitors to the cramped offices of Health Quality Partners in Doylestown, Pa., he likes to show them a graph. It's not his graph, he's quick to say. Coburn is not the sort to take credit for other's work. But it's a graph that ...
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Elder Law: What Medicare covers in a skilled nursing facility - Cumberlink
Carlisle Sentinel
Since Title 18 of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965 introduced Medicare, American citizens have confidently expected that, when we reach age 65, Medicare will be available to pay for health care. Permanent resident aliens may also qualify for ...
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Protect seniors from unscrupulous Medicare scams
Kansas City Star
Faxes sent to her office requested authorization for medical equipment and testing products her patients didn't want or need. One patient reported badgering sales calls over several days. Medicare would have paid the bills, had she obliged. But she ...
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Kansas City Star
"Welcome to Medicare", will be broadcast on KIXE-TV
Red Bluff Daily News
A public television and public radio simulcast show called, "Welcome to Medicare," will be broadcast on KIXE-TV (Channel 9) and KCHO/KFPR Northstate Public Radio (91.7 FM Chico, 88.9 FM Redding) at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2. This is a call-in show, ...
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Help for Medicare Costs
Tucson Citizen
Anyone on Medicare with monthly income below $1,313 (individual) or $1,765 (married couple) can get help through the Medicare Savings Program, which is funded by the federal government, but administered through state Medicaid offices. In Tucson, the ...
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Feds warn Nev. mental hospital over patient 'dumping'
Detroit Free Press
Federal health regulators have threatened to take away Medicare funding from Nevada's main public psychiatric hospital because it sent patients on one-way bus rides to California and 46 other states during the past five years. The Rawson-Neal ...
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HOWARD KOSSOVER: Can Medicare cover family members?
Grand Forks Herald
First, Medicare provides individual coverage only. It does not have family coverage. Second, age-based Medicare cannot begin until 65. Depending on her personal work record, your wife should be eligible for Medicare through either her work or yours ...
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Qualifying for Medicare rehabilitation services
Port Huron Times Herald
However, if you were only in the hospital under observation, your rehab will be private pay from Day 1. If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, you are not covered by traditional Medicare and you have to consult your plan documents for the determination ...
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Democrats, GOP dig in their heels on deficit reduction - Newsday
Newsday
And now, top Democrats are staunchly opposing changes to Medicare and Social Security benefits, despite studies showing the programs' financial paths are unsustainable. Unless something gives, it's hard to see what will produce the major compromises ...
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Blogs1 new result for Medicare
 
ObamaCare Clusterfuck: RJ Eskow endorses Medicare for All (kinda ...
By lambert
Op-Ed News, all the way at the last paragraph: I still feel the way I did in 2009 when I wrote that "progressive groupthink hindered health reform." The reflexive instinct to support a Democratic-proposed policy led to the mind-bending spectacle ...
lambert's blog

Web2 new results for Medicare
 
Medicare Plans to Boost Pay to U.S. Hospitals by 0.8% - Bloomberg
Hospitals will get a pay raise from the U.S. government for treating patients in the nation's Medicare program.
www.bloomberg.com/.../medicare-plans-to-boost-pay-to-u-s-h...
Senator Puts Hold on Medicare Nominee - WSJ.com
Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, irked by Obama administration plans to cut funding for a government health program, temporarily blocked the White House's ...
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424127887324235304578440743...


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