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• Top Ten Medicare Update Blog Posts of 2009

  
  Medicare Update — Authority: 131
  Below are the top ten Medicare Update posts of 2009 (based on the number of views): 1)   Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors: Dont Be Left in the Dark 2)   CMS Announces 2010 Medicare Premiums and Deductibles 3)   CMS Publishes 2010 Medicare Payment and Policy Updates for Inpatient Rehabilitation ...
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• PacificSource Acquires Clear One Health Plans

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 125
  PacificSource Health Plans has acquired Clear One Health Plans for $46 Million.  Under the merger agreement, Clear One will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Eugene Oregon based PacificSource. The merger will allow PacificSource to increase its presence in Central Oregon and expand into the Medicare and Medicaid ...
  6 days ago

• Are Minorities Getting Shafted in the Health Care Bill?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 448
  Minority groups disproportionately use Medicare Advantage (MA), which is slated for a $118 billion cut. One in four MA enrollees is Hispanic/Latino; one in four is African American. Also, more than 80% of Hispanic/Latino Medicare-eligible seniors with incomes of less than $20,000 per year are enrolled in an MA plan . ...
  6 days ago

• Seniors worry about Medicare Advantage cuts (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 171
  AP – Insurers constantly caution seniors that their Medicare Advantage perks such as hearing aids, dental payments and even … View original post here: (AP)"> (AP)">Seniors worry about Medicare Advantage cuts (AP)
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• CBO Says Real 10-Year Cost of Senate ObamaCare Bill Still $2.5 Trillion

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 131
  The American people will pay an additional one trillion dollars in taxes over ten years than they otherwise would have paid to finance the Democrats’ takeover of health care.  That is a brutal fact. When the Democrats say their bill is “deficit neutral” what they mean is that they made drastic cuts in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medicare Supplement in Case Medicare Advantage is Cancelled

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 125
  According to the article “Advantage Plan Cancellation: What To Do” found on TucsonCitizen.com, you have two options in the case that your Medicare Advantage Plan is cancelled.  It’s important to understand those options to the best of your ability so you aren’t left without coverage for any period of time. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Advantage of Medicare Advantage

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 448
  As Linda Gorman has previously discussed , if the real point of a so-called “public option” was simply to supply fair competition against private insurers, the government would allow patients dependent on VA, Medicaid, and Medicare to take their entitlements as vouchers and get private insurance. In fact, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medicare Advantage exposes Medicare’s hidden tax

  
  Independence Institute: Patient Power — Authority: 480
  Says John Graham at the Pacific Research Institute in a new study: Medicare Advantage … allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill , the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about $118 billion. “In a very narrow sense, Medicare ...
  2 weeks ago

• Behind the Curtain: Why AARP Supports ObamaCare

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  When the AARP began its full-throated support for the President’s Health Care Scheme many wondered why this venerable organization would support a plan which would  cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, mostly by putting strict price controls on the very popular Medicare Advantage program. By ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sen. Bill Nelson, Spinmeister

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  During an interview with Greta van Susteren Wednesday night, Bill Nelson told a whopper or two. Follow this link to read the entire transcript. Here’s the whopper Sen. Nelson told: VAN SUSTEREN: Does the bill — does the bill cut Medicare? NELSON: What it does is…Medicare Advantage, that is a 14 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senator Coburn Educates The Educated Fools aka Progressive Radical Socialists Who Cannot Write, Read, Or Understand The Health Care Bill or Competitive Markets!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 133
  The Good and Bad of US Health Care Patient Care will Suffer in this Health Care bill Health Bill Author: No Senator Can Understand Health Care Bill  Reform Should be Patient Centered, not Government Centered Part 1 Reform Should be Patient Centered, not Government Centered Part 2 ...
  2 weeks ago

• What does the public think about the proposed healthcare coverage?

  
  Health Care - From Policy to Practice — Authority: 112
  At the Health Affairs Blog, they reveal the results of a study done by Zogby International, where the online panelists were polled about they way they feel about certain coverages on the House and Senates current bills for the healthcare reform. They got public opinion on:1) Financing of the healthcare reform2) ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Three Senators Who Could Save You From Government-Run Health Care

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 736
  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) may have announced that he expects to vote for Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) health bill this afternoon, but that leaves Reid with just 59 votes. He needs to get all three of the following holdouts to sign on the dotted line by Christmas: Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) As we have ...
  3 weeks ago

• News on physical, cognitive and emotional fitness

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 525
  Nice weekend reading material – recent news reiforcing emerging trends on physical, cognitive and emotional fitness, but with new twists. Fit teens could be smarter teens “Researchers from Sweden and USC examined data on 1.2 million Swedish men born between 1950 and 1976 who also enlisted for the country’s ...
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• Sen. Bill Nelson Protects Medicare Advantage Benefits In 3 Florida Counties

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 450
  Medicare Advantage participants are protected from cuts to their benefits in 3 democratic counties in Florida; Broward, Miami Dade, and Palm Beach.  ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME?  Nope, of course not, we know who we are dealing with; the Progressive Democratic Socialist Party controlled congress that wants to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medicare Advantage Plans Waste Billions of Dollars - Study

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 449
  This should come as no surprise as we see it all over the web, advertising and explanations on how to select a plan.  It rolls over into the government even putting time and effort into a guide and websites too.   One example is the money that goes out for Pharmacy Benefit Managers, posted here yesterday.  The ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2009/12/10

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 448
  NPR fact checks Medicare Advantage cuts discussed by McConnell : Ignores CMS, CBO and other estimates of harm to the elderly. Senate health bill will cover acupuncturists, chiropractors, naturopaths and bee-pollen pills : “These provisions are anti-science and anti-consumer,” says one critic. SEIU discovers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Geisinger Health Plan: Geisinger Gold

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 125
  Geisinger Health Insurance , offers a program that will help you choose the right Medicare plan.  It’s called Geisinger Gold and it has many advantages. With the Geisinger name behind it, Geisinger Gold offers several coverage options that suit your Medicare needs.  Plans are affordable and they provide a large ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cutting waste will protect Medicare

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 133
  I hope you will click on the link and read the whole article.  It is quite enlightening.  I certainly wasn’t happy about Medicare cuts, but if this article is correct, those cuts would be savings cuts, not cuts to care. Bill Kallio Kallio lives in Richmond and is the state director for AARP Virginia. AARP has ...
  4 weeks ago

• We’re in the Record

  
  FactCheck.org — Authority: 133
  Saturday’s Senate debate on the health care bill included a few mentions of yours truly, FactCheck.org. Our work was cited on Dec. 2 by Sen. John McCain, who quoted from our Oct. 20, 2008, article . Three days later our article made the Congressional Record yet again. This time, it was prompted by Sen. John ...
  4 weeks ago

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