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| Sequester cuts hit elderly cancer patients CBS News It costs Medicare $6,500 more per patient for chemo administered in a hospital, and patients will pay more out of pocket too -- $650 more. Hospitals may also have a hard time absorbing the influx. Meanwhile, cancer care facilities are struggling with a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama Budget Proposal Cuts Are 'Unconscionable,' Says AFL-CIO Huffington Post On Saturday, organized labor quickly made good on its promise to oppose a White House budget that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, with the AFL-CIO labor federation ripping the president's expected proposal with unusually tough language ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New Medicare program coming to Dover Foster's Daily Democrat For years, Medicare and its beneficiaries have been paying too much for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS). These overpayments were the result of a fee schedule based on historic supplier charges from the 1980s, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Advantage "Armageddon" Averted Motley Fool Everyone can exhale -- for now. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services avoided disrupting the Medicare Advantage plans of millions of seniors and sparked a huge rally in health-insurance stocks. However, this fix is not without controversy, as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| More comprehensive solutions needed for Social Security and Medicare Baltimore Sun Robert Reich's op-ed ("Obama should not compromise on Social Security and Medicare" April 3) prompts me to write. Mr. Reich's prescription for these programs isn't completely off the mark. But there is a much more comprehensive solution to each. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lawsuit claims Medicare fraud at Evansville hospital Evansville Courier & Press The lawsuit also states that hospital officials discharged patients to other medical facilities and timed their readmission so Select Specialty Hospital would receive two separate Medicare payments — a practice that caused the other medical facilities ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| With budgets on the table, Washington divide remains as wide as ever NBCNews.com (blog) Obama will once again propose some changes in entitlement programs — such as a new formula for Social Security, which would effectively reduce retirement benefits, and raising the premiums that upper-income Medicare beneficiaries would need to pay ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Seniors with cancer get what they voted for as Medicare turns them away Examiner.com On April 4, following the announcement by the Health and Human Services division of the Obama Administration announced that cancer patients over 65 on Medicare would not receive treatments for cancer, accusations were launched by Democrats and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| House GOP SGR replacement would ease Medicare's doctor pay into a pay-for ... News-Medical.net Under its new proposal to replace the Medicare physician payment formula, the House GOP plan would provide physicians with a stable, pre-set fee schedule to allow an eventual transition to alternate payment models. After that transitional period ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Obama says budget that cuts Social Security and Medicare benefits ... By Agence France-Presse The comments followed reports that in his budget proposal, Obama will make key concessions to Republicans by offering to cut some entitlement programs like the Social Security retirement program and Medicare, a health care plan for the ... The Raw Story | ||
| *TAKE ACTION* Save Social Security And Medicare *PLEASE SIGN ... By Kit B. Americans have paid into Social Security and Medicare since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is not an entitlement! It is a system Americans have paid into and expect a good return on their investment. Care2 News Network |
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