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| Medicare levy hike to pay for the national disability insurance scheme The Australian The Daily Telegraph understands while the higher Medicare levy would be presented as a reasonable form of "insurance" to protect families from the huge costs of coping with a disability, no final decision has been made whether to include it in the May ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare releases a 1424-page rule that's actually really interesting! Washington Post (blog) At the same time, Medicare is making it harder to earn those dollars by increasing the payments to the very best hospitals — and trimming what it will pay poor performers. Starting in 2014, 2 percent of hospitals' reimbursements will depend on how ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Plibersek's Medicare warning The Australian The centre's Jeremy Sammut recommended cuts to the commonwealth bureaucracy, the privatisation of some public hospitals, more means-testing of Medicare subsidies and greater workforce flexibility. Even the Consumers Health Forum -- which yesterday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama offers to break Social Security pledge, clashes ... Washington Post As the population gets older, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are eating up more and more of the federal budget, squeezing the ability of the government to pay for other programs. Today, the three massive benefit programs account for 44 percent ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hospital Stocks Rally as Medicare Tempers Budget Cut Blow (2) Businessweek The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said April 26 that it plans a net raise in payments to acute-care hospitals of 0.8 percent beginning Oct. 1. Investors were expecting no change to as much as a 1 percent decrease, according to Brian ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cut back Medicare, think tank says - Brisbane Times Brisbane Times Medicare funding should be split to allow generations X and Y to save for their own future health needs before the system is eventually scrapped, a right-wing think tank says. The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is calling for a complete overhaul ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Medicare denials stoke questions about ambulance company's billing Ventura County Star Katharine Raley, Ventura County's insurance advocate for seniors, has reported 14 cases in which people covered by Medicare were denied payment for ambulances. In one case, which was later resolved, a man died two hours after arriving at the hospital, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Medicare levy hike to pay for the national disability insurance scheme THE average worker could be hit with an increased Medicare levy of about $300 a year in next month's budget to help pay for the national disability insurance scheme. Daily Telegraph | Top Stories |
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| Your biggest assets are Social Security, Medicare - MarketWatch MarketWatchThe value of Social Security and Medicare benefits is far greater than the all the other wealth most families have accumulated over a lifetime of work ... articles.marketwatch.com/.../38826626_1_wealth-social-securi... |
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