Category: Medicare
Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan allows the government to spend less on Medicare by making patients pay more — potentially a lot more. But proponents of the plan say it will make seniors “cost-conscious consumers”, which will hold prices down.
Thought your hospital room was dirty? Did your nurse sometimes ignore you? If so, the hospital has a new reason to worry: Patient gripes soon will affect how much hospitals get paid by Medicare.
In new poll, 62 percent of seniors said they want Medicare to be left alone, but, overall, Americans are split with 50 percent of all polled saying they wanted Medicare to remain the same and 46 percent saying it should be changed.
Starting this year, seniors enrolled in Medicare no longer have to pay for more than a dozen tests and other services to help prevent or control cancer and other costly and debilitating diseases. But big crowds aren’t lining up for the free mammograms, colonoscopies and other prevention services.
On paper, the Ryan plan saves the government a lot of money, at least in the long run. But upon closer inspection, the savings turn out to be illusory, cruel or some combination of the two.
KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and Marilyn Werber Serafini talk with Jackie Judd about President Obama’s Wednesday speech outlining his details for reducing the deficit and hitting back at a Republican deficit plan. In it, Obama laid out his plans for preserving Medicare while cutting spending. Full video of President Obama’s address.
Remember all those allegations from Republicans that the Affordable Care Act would inevitably lead to health care rationing? It turns out the same might be true of the House GOP budget plan for Medicare. At least that’s the conclusion of the Congressional Budget Office.
Seniors and the disabled would pay sharply more for their Medicare coverage under a new plan by House Republicans aimed at curbing the nation’s growing deficit, a Congressional Budget Office analysis shows.
The House Budget chairman says his overall objective is to convert Medicare into a premium support program.
Some Republican leaders want to overhaul Medicare, a $520 billion program that covers nearly 47 million older and disabled Americans. Here’s a guide to some of the changes being discussed.
Due to GOP opposition, Dr. Don Berwick may not even receive a hearing on his appointment to run Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Both Democrats and Republicans should be dismayed at the sight of a partisan campaign driving yet another distinguished figure out of American government.
The Senate’s failure confirm Don Berwick, M.D. to be Administrator of CMS is more than ‘ignorance in action’, it’s ‘maliciousness in action.’
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