Tag: Medicare

Pay-for-Performance Attacks Hospitals – Shake Down or Fair Play

This blog has tried to support the virtue of personal responsibility. If…

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Medicare Now Provides Coverage for Obesity Treatment and Prevention

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Obama Names New Nominee for CMS Head in ’12

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Ripping Off Medicare

If this were a novel, it would require too much suspension of…

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Time for Higher Income Seniors to Pay More for Medicare

I’m pleased to learn that the super committee is seriously contemplating having…

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Medicare Has Lower Than Expected Premium Increases

As the November 23 deadline for the Super Committee fast approaches, the…

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Reasons to Reform Medicaid

Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have produced ten. Here…

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Reasons to Reform Medicaid

Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have produced ten. Here…

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Why You Won’t See a Bold Medicare Plan From Mitt Romney

Kaiser Health News tries hard to understand Mitt Romney’s Medicare plans and…

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Price Controls Can Be Deadly

A 2003 law fixes the price Medicare will pay for injected drugs…

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