The American Medical Association reiterated its support Monday for Republican-led efforts to repeal the controversial cost-cutting board created by President Obama’s healthcare law. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s health panel is scheduled to vote this week to repeal the …
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Building a Consumer-Oriented Healthcare System In 1965, Medicare was created so seniors would have access to quality healthcare. Over the past four decades Americans have repeatedly reaffirmed that commitment. Medicare is an extraordinary American success story, extending healthy lives for …
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When it comes to schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, there seems to be no limit to the ingenuity and tenacity of would-be scammers. Still, a Texas doctor and six co-conspirators indicted for an alleged long-running home healthcare scheme look …
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One hallmark of the Obama administration’s budget policy has been to exempt the elderly from major cuts, even though spending on the elderly — mainly through Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — represents 40 percent or more of the budget. …
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New tools help doctors and other health care providers improve quality of care People with Medicare will be able to benefit from a new program designed to encourage primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other healthcare providers to coordinate their …
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One in three Medicare patients undergoes inpatient surgery in their last year of life, often during the final month, researcher found.  Of the 1.8 million Medicare patients who died in 2008, about one-third underwent a surgical procedure the year before …
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President Obama’s plan to cut $248 billion from Medicare over the next decade as part of his deficit reduction plan has drawn heat from all sides. Republicans denounced it as too little. Advocates for older Americans denounced it as too …
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Time is running out to protect Medicare and Medicaid from relentless efforts by Republicans to weaken two of the most popular elements of our social fabric. The president’s plan which was unveiled this week includes raising taxes on the super …
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President Obama and some members of Congress assert that, in cutting Medicare and Medicaid, they can whack health care providers while protecting beneficiaries. But experts say it is not so simple. Experience, they say, shows that some cuts in payments to providers hurt beneficiaries, …
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President Obama’s budget director said Monday that the president’s new deficit-reduction plan would impose “a lot of pain,” and that is clearly true of White House proposals to cut $320 billion from projected spending on Medicare and Medicaid in the coming decade. Mr. Obama …
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