Tag: Medicare

How Medicare Spends Its Drug Dollars

Drug Class 2008 Drug Cost ANTIHYPERLIPIDEMICS $6,165,831,884 ANTIPSYCHOTICS/ANTIMANIC $5,698,011,103

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Is Medicare A Good Deal?

Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes…

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Two Approaches to Controlling Drug Costs

The Medicaid Drug Rebate Program has been around for 20 years.  It…

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Privatizing Social Security and Medicare: Who Can Defuse Political Dynamite?

In response to my prior post where I averred that cigarette companies…

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Squandering Medicare’s Money

Medicare spends a fortune each year on procedures that have no proven…

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Vouchercare for Cancer

The health care cost debate takes place on two stages using two…

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A Silver Lining in GOP Attempts to Defund PPACA implementation

The Hill (CBO: Defunding healthcare law could end drug benefits) has an…

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How to Start an Adult Discussion on Medicare

Now is a good time to take a deep breath and entertain…

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Bipartisan Cooperation on Medicare: I’m Getting More Optimistic

There’s been so much acrimony about health care on Capitol Hill that…

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Millionaire Retirees

Starting next year…the typical husband and wife who reach age 66 and…

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