Medicare Part D

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• Deal with Big Pharma haunts Democrats

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 625
  Democratic leaders face a major decision now on health care reform– yet another one this year that will throw into relief the interests that compete in American representative democracy. They have to choose between either closing the “doughnut hole” and offering full coverage for millions of low-income seniors ...
  9 hours ago

• Pharma deal haunts Democrats

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 624
  Senate Democratic leaders won quick praise from seniors this week when they vowed to close the nettlesome coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. Photo by DawnVGilmorePhotography, Flickr Creative Commons “I am committed to fully closing it , once and for all,” Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
  11 hours ago

• Pharma Deal Haunts Democrats

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) (WDCpix) Senate Democratic leaders won quick praise from seniors this week when they vowed to close the nettlesome coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. “I am committed to fully closing it, once and for all,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said ...
  13 hours ago

• Dorgan Amendment Slashed After Last-Minute PhRMA Deal PhRMA Hasn’t Agreed To

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  photo: Destinys Agent via Flickr Ryan Grim has a good tick-tock on the failure of the Dorgan amendment last night, delivering a huge victory for the pharmaceutical industry and a blow to consumers who could have saved over $100 billion in prescription drug costs. Thirty Democrats and Joe Lieberman ended up voting ...
  1 day ago

• Where We’re at on the Lieberman Health Care Industry Profit Protection Act of 2009

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  Thanks, Senator Lieberman. Thanks a bunch. (photo: AlmazUK via Flickr) After last night’s epic cave-in on the Lieberman health care bill, I thought I’d just give a big-picture view of where we’re at right now: • As has been reported everywhere, Lieberman basically got everything he wanted with staggering ...
  2 days ago

• I Can’t Afford to Eat or Take My Medications. What Am I Going to Do? – Mickey

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 157
  Mickey wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question. If you have a credit or debt question you’d like to ask just use the online form. I’m happy to help you totally for free. Income from the GetOutOfDebt.org site advertising is used to help alleviate poverty. If you would like to ...
  2 days ago

• Top Ten 2009 EldercareABC Posts by Mary Jane Stern

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 128
  By Mary Jane Stern Now Legal To Buy Canada Prescription Drugs Cautiously Wow great new from the US Senate.  They passed a bill making it legal to purchase prescription drugs from Canada over the Internet here in the USA. Extra Eldercare Help for Prescription Drugs The Medicare Prescription Drug ...
  3 days ago

• Congressional Hearing – Prescription Drug Price Inflation: Are Prices Rising Too Fast?

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 423
  The House Subcommittee on Health (of the House Energy and Commerce Committee) recently held a hearing titled "Prescription Drug Price Inflation: Are Prices Rising Too Fast?" The purpose of the hearing according to the Subcommittee’s website was to examine recent reports of rapid increases in brand-name ...
  1 week ago

• Medicare tall tales

  
  Broward's Blog — Authority: 117
  St. Petersburg Times Editorial: Arizona Sen. John McCain should know better. So should Florida Sen. George LeMieux and Gov. Charlie Crist . They are among the politicians using tired scare tactics to build opposition to the cuts to Medicare s growth in the health care reform proposals ...
  1 week ago

• Medicare Supplement Insurance: What You Should Know

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 421
  The article “How Do You Choose the Best Medigap Policy” found on Todaysseniors.com, shares some helpful information for today’s senior citizens when choosing Medicare suppplement insurance. There are dozens of Medigap plans out there, from UnitedHealth Care’s Secure Horizons , to AARP so it’s hard to tell ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sebelius releases new report: health insurance reform and Pennsylvania – the case for change

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 154
  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of a new report highlighting the benefits of health insurance reform for Pennsylvania. Health Insurance Reform and Pennsylvania: The Case for Change is available now at http://www.healthreform.gov/ . “Families, seniors and businesses are all suffering ...
  3 weeks ago

• HCAN and Organizing for America continue the profit-making power of the insurance industry

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 128
  HCAN and Organizing for America are following in the footsteps of organizations that are created every time health care reform is attempted. They promote incremental changes to the system and the legislation urgently (health reform can’t wait!) and passionately promoted is not designed to solve the crisis, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medicare Supplement Insurance and Seniors

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 421
  According to the article “Overhaul of Health Care Bad for Seniors” by John Fanning on summitdaily.com, many senior citizens are losing their health insurance coverage in 2010 as many insurers have reduced medicare supplement plans or have increased premiums drastically.  Many seniors are currently struggling ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Review Of Counseling Practices On Prescription Medicines In Community Pharmacies

  
  Health Choices — Authority: 150
  The Medicare Generics, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2007 established funding to allow Medicare beneficiaries to enroll in plans providing outpatient generic drugs coverage beginning in Jule 2006. The Medicare Part D program has changed the means by which beneficiaries purchase generics, impacting the business ...
  4 weeks ago

• Health Care Reform is the most significant effort at cost control in a generation, if not ever.

  
  2parse — Authority: 128
  Once health care reform passes, the White House has signaled it will begin to focus more specifically on the deficit . (Also, on jobs, cap and trade, and financial regulation.) But as the Obama administration presented it initially: Health care reform is deficit reduction. (Ezra Klein, health care policy wonk, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Understanding medicare and other health insurance products

  
  Ravi's Gadgets — Authority: 120
  Medicare is a GREAT health insurance program!! The problem is most people feel intimidated by it. They are overwhelmed by the choices and get frustrated and ultimately turned off by the whole system. That is unfortunate, but hopefully this article will clear up some of these issues. Medicare is a health insurance ...
  4 weeks ago

• Part D Payer Shares of Prescriptions Dispensed Rise

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 130
  Increase for Eight Major Drug ClassesBy Staff ReportersThe shares of all prescriptions dispensed covered by Medicare Part D rose by at least three percentage points, between midyear 2007 and midyear 2009, in each of eight major drug classes profiled.AssessmentThe largest percentage increases over this period were in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Drug Deal Gone Bad?

  
  1115.org — Authority: 134
  Remember the drug industry’s secret deal with the Obama administration to support healthcare reform “by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect”? It’s funny how that seems to be working out. First, a bit of background. When George Bush introduced ...
  4 weeks ago

• No COLA for 2010 Part D Premiums Rising

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 128
  by Mary Jane Stern It has been reported there will be no COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) for 2010 and you would hope there would no increases in other areas of Medicare premiums for your healthcare.  But, in a press release from CMS, August 14, 2009, premiums for Part D will rise in 2010. What ...
  4 weeks ago

• Time To Review And Select Your Medicare Plan

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 678
  The six week enrollment period for seniors to review and make changes to their Medicare option plan has started. From November 15th through December 31st, seniors may make changes to their Medicare Part D or Advantage plan.
  4 weeks ago

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