Medicare Part D

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• Medicare Beneficiaries Affected By Health Care Reform

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 125
  The WhiteHouse.gov website has information on the new health care reform bill.  They specifically discuss the changes being made to Medicare .  To pay for the health care reform bill there needs to be $313 billion in savings to create a deficit for an overall neutral plan.  The article says that America has the ...
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• Clock ticking: Less than two days for open enrollment in Medicare Part D for 2010

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 139
  Earlier this month I posted the item at this link . Now less than two days remain for open enrollment for Medicare Part D for the 2010 year. Go to tonights WRAL-TV coverage on the same subject at this link here , and be sure to spread the word today among your senior friends, loved ones, and caregivers of loved ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care Reform: This is Getting Personal

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 753
  photo: Rigmarole via Flickr Today a friend brought to my attention an article in the Washington Post entitled The not-so-sweet side of closing ‘doughnut hole.’ The part of the article that is most pertinent to me is this: The closing of an unusual gap in Medicare drug coverage — a gap that Republicans ...
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• More Hole Than Doughnut

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 131
  Color me skeptical, but I dont think Congressional Democrats quite get it when it comes to Medicare Part D, the prescription drug benefit. The bill as originally passed is defective in several of its provisions, but especially one in which elders who have to take expensive medications often are reduced to choosing ...
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• Six years ago, "it was standard practice not to pay for things," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R-UT). Apparently You Only Have To Pay For Your Programs If Youre A Democrat

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  Six years ago, "it was standard practice not to pay for things," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
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• Health Bill Benefits for the Impatient

  
  Prescriptions — Authority: 745
  Some immediate benefits from the health care legislation advancing on Capitol Hill will ease the minds of parents who may have hit up against limitations of their existing health insurance.
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• The Health Care Reform Bill So Far

  
  Broward's Blog — Authority: 123
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife There are some great elements of this bill that will take some time to set up, such as the new insurance marketplace -- the Exchange -- that allows people without insurance and small businesses to compare plans and buy insurance at competitive prices. But there are a lot ...
  2 weeks ago

• AARP Medicare Supplements Calculator

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 125
  On AARP’s website they have what is called a “Doughnut Hole Calculator” which has been designed for the 2010 Plan to avoid falling into a gap for Medicare Part D coverage.  It’s a four step tool that is very useful for saving you money on your health insurance quotes . The Doughnut Hole Calculator is easy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Deal with Big Pharma haunts Democrats

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 623
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pharma deal haunts Democrats

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 676
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pharma Deal Haunts Democrats

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 722
  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 ...
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• Dorgan Amendment Slashed After Last-Minute PhRMA Deal PhRMA Hasn’t Agreed To

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 753
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Majority Leader Reid committed to closing senior drug doughnut hole

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 658
  Filed under: Politics Even as Senate Democratic Leaders huddled with White House advisors over the best way to retain maverick U.S. Sen. Joseph Liebermans, I-Connecticut, critical Number 60 vote, there was reason to believe that one key provision of health care reform already has sufficient Senate support: ...
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• Where We’re at on the Lieberman Health Care Industry Profit Protection Act of 2009

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 753
  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 ...
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• 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: 156
  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 ...
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• Republicans Roadblock Health Care Reform

  
  Blake's Think Tank — Authority: 138
  Last week I appeared on television with GOP political consultant Bill Vickery to discuss the latest amendments to the health insurance reform bill pending before Congress. After a quick discussion of the opportunities presented by two interesting additions: the expansion of medicare to those 55 and up, and a the ...
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• ‘That Dumb Cowboy Bush’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Matthew Yglesias, making another version of his argument that the multiple veto points in the legislative branch overly empower the minority and make America “ungovernable,” drew a quip from Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds : “Funny, that dumb cowboy Bush seemed to get a lot done with fewer votes in ...
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• Top Ten 2009 EldercareABC Posts by Mary Jane Stern

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 435
  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 ...
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• Congressional Hearing – Prescription Drug Price Inflation: Are Prices Rising Too Fast?

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 128
  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 ...
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• Medicare tall tales

  
  Broward's Blog — Authority: 123
  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 ...
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