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Question When I filled out the Medicare prescription compare plan, I miscalculated my husband’s insulin prescription. Consequently, we reached the doughnut hole within five weeks.
Will the full price of the drugs be deducted from [...]
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released its long-term budget outlook. Again, the forecast going forward to 2035 and beyond was a grim reminder of the fiscal future that awaits the U.S., especially if Congress does what it has done for the past ten years: increase spending and cut taxes. The federal budget [...] By MERRILL GOOZNER Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times are questioning some of the key assumptions behind the Dartmouth Atlas of Health, which for twenty years has documented wide variations in Medicare utilization rates across the… Also: what the Internet may be doing to your brain; Medicare Advantage rates for 2011; physician shortages ahead? The AMA wants the public to contact senators and tell them to “get back to work and fix Medicare now.” Also: the Medicare doughnut hole begins to shrink, a Pfizer trial is halted early and ultrasound becomes the new front in the abortion wars. Ezra Klein interviewed James Galbraith, who argued quite forcefully that “the danger [posed by the long-term deficit] is zero. It’s not overstated. It’s completely misstated.” We now have an answer to the trivia question, “What do James Galbraith and Dick Cheney have in common?” Cheney famously said, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” Cheney didn’t try to defend [...] By MAGGIE MAHAR Summary: If hospitals pay more attention to how they discharge patients, and what happens to them after they leave, Medicare could save billions. Under the reform legislation, beginning in 2011 Medicare will refuse to pay for an… |
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