medicare

I have posted other links about the new White House report on Socialism in the Economics, and Finance thread, but I think that this one belongs here:

With control of the White House, the Senate and the House, Paul Ryan finally gets his chance to "reform" (i.e. kill) Medicare. Hey, old people, don't get sick! http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medicare-ryan-20161114-story.html...

Not sure if this should go here or Current Events. New Medicare Data Reveal Startling $496 Million Wasted On Chiropractors Recent Forbes article on just how much money is wasted by the US Government on Chiropractic care. And Chiropractic is not the only sCAM covered; so the wastage is likely...

Linky. Who came up with this nonsense?

A New Year’s Surprise: Medicare Spending is Slowing on Its Own One possible factor is that the Federal Government under Obama is cracking down on Medicare fraud. Seven Charged in Health Care Fraud But wait! Republicans assured us that Obamacare was going to bust the budget! But Obama is...

You have people like Paul Ryan proposing to kill Medicare, while at the same time intensely rallying against actual cost saving measures to Medicare like those in the Health Care law. You have GOP economic plans that propose to reduce the GDP. You have full nutjobs like Ron Paul claiming that...

I'm having hard time seeing formulation for fixing the Medicare, outside of the ones proposed by the administration. Most other ideas about fixing Medicare just appear to be refutations of "Obamacare", and I don't see any ideas to fixing it. Even the Tea Partiers don't want it cut, which I...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/23/obamacare-for-everyone-but-obama/

If you add up all the private Health Insurance company's rejection rate (Blue cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc.) it is much less than what Medicare/Medicaid rejects. If we go to Universal Health Insurance, why would you expect it to improve?

I know there are plenty of example of political games in the legislative process, but I found this pretty interesting: Dems defeat GOP on restoring $40B in Medicare cuts Essentially Democrats first promised $460 billion in "cuts" or "savings" in the existing Medicare program. Republicans, not...

Gosh darn it, who knew: Obama taps spending watchdog, eyes Social Security Easy prediction - NOTHING gets done in Congress, especially now that Pelosi has turned back the fairness rules put in by Gingrich. That's a real great way to win bipartisan support, Nancy.

So, I just got off the phone with my brother. I'm going to be sending a $4200 check to him, to cover Mom's stay at an assisted living facility for the month of December. That's more than I make in a month. And - I don't have any type of health insurance myself. Nothing. And I'm 50...

The Onion explains the new Medicare program explained without all those pesky details. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42755

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040323/D81G7NOG0.html ...full article Now all I have to do is wait for people to demand that the government be given more power to correct a mess that it created in the first place.

Let me be the first to say it: Clinton did it too. Let me also say: that don't make it right. ___________________ March 17 — Late one Friday afternoon in January, after the House of Representatives had adjourned for the week, Cybele Bjorklund, a House Democratic health policy aide, heard the...

The videos aired in Tennessee, Louisiana, and other states preceeded by a government-provided scripts which introduced "reporter" Karen Ryan. When asked about the distribution of the videos, a Department of Health spokesperson said everybody does it.

Yesterday on PBS there was a NewsHour segment about Medicare. An interesting thign I heard there is that apparently the partial privatization of medicare that had happened prior to the current bill, has shown some very surprising (to some) result: apparently private medicare administration...