Managing Your Medicare: An Insider's Guide to Maximizing Benefits and Lowering Costs
Healthcare Economist (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The Social Security Administration’s Office of the Actuary projects Medicare costs up to 75 years in the future. How much of your taxable income will be going to pay for Medicare in the next 10, 25, or 75 years? Take a look at this chart. By 2085, 12.24% of your taxable income will need [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Kaiser Health News staff writers Christopher Weaver and Kate Steadman report on the history of pilot projects in the context of current reform proposals. "The Democratic health reform legislation comes studded with cautious plans to test proposals reining in Medicare costs.
Valley News Dispatch (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Allegheny Ludlum retirees learn the cost of a broken promiseBy , VALLEY NEWS DISPATCHTuesday, November 3, 2009Last updated: 8:35 am About the writerBrian C. Rittmeyer can be reached or at 724-226-4701.Ways to get usSalaried retirees of Allegheny Ludlum remain unhappy with the company's decision to eliminate their once-promised lifetime health care benefits, but many see little choice but to...
WhiteCoat's Call Room (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
by Mark Plaster MD The New York Times is warning that the urban patients may feel the pinch of the health care bill as it tries to rein in out of control health care costs. It notes that the goal of the bill is to cut Medicare costs by 15-30% by restraining the hospitals that cost [...]
Let's Talk Health Care (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... care treatment will be the majority of those seeking to purchase insurance, thereby raising the cost of insurance for everyone. o Aggressive minimum coverage standards – Richer benefits than are currently being sold on average in most state-regulated markets would be established as required “minimum coverage” under the federal plan, thereby raising the average cost of insurance. o...
Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Live Discussing foreign policy issues. Scott Brown hits at Capuano. Robinson hits at Brown. Health Care Pags- Public Option component of cost reduction. Admin costs need to be reduced through centralized data. Brown - goes after Capuano (who sweated the week out in DC fighting not talking about health care reform - my edit) If you have Medicare "you should be scared"...
Dittos Rush! (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
... drugmakers such as says a House provision to allow the government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare would cost tens of thousands of jobs.House Speaker won passage of her version of the legislation on Nov. 7 only after forcing her party’s liberal wing to make concessions and can’t count on those votes for a final version. In the Senate, time is running out to get a bill passed this year,...
Bloomberg (Free subscription) | yesterday
... drugmakers such as says a House provision to allow the government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare would cost tens of thousands of jobs. House Speaker won passage of her version of the legislation on Nov. 7 only after forcing her party’s liberal wing to make concessions and can’t count on those votes for a final version. In the Senate, time is running out to get a bill passed this year,...
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Maybe Pelosi is channeling Ferdinand Foch?...Saturday, the House will take up a 2000 page health care bill that will raise taxes, cut Medicare, and cost more than a trillion dollars. That is the political version of Foch telling his troops...
