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• in Politics
  Obama Is About To Sell Out Ordinary Americans
  Is Obama a turncoat?
  by amohit / on Dec 6, 2012
• in Politics
  Fiscal Cliff and Some Rambling
  Fiscal Cliff is a figment of Wall Street imagination
  by amohit / on Nov 29, 2012
• in Business
  Do You Know What the 'Fiscal Cliff' Is?
  You've heard so much about the 'fiscal cliff', but do you know what it is? Here's a simple breakdown, and what it will cost to avoid falling over the edge.
  by dopodomani / on Nov 18, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “medicare”

 

• Senior poverty is much worse than you think

  
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  Senior citizens rally on the Capitol steps in Washington on July 22, 1981, to denounce President Ronald Reagan’s proposed cuts in their Social Security benefits. (AP) One frequent knock on the official poverty rate is that it generally excluded income from some government programs like food stamps and the Earned ...
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• The Government Bans Doctors Who Can’t Repay Their Student Loans From Treating Medicare Patients

  
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  Over ten percent of all doctors and nurses on the government’s Medicare and Medicaid blacklist end up on it because they defaulted on government-backed student loans. Medical workers on the blacklist are barred from treating Medicare and Medicaid patients or receiving federal reimbursements for a predesignated time ...
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• WWEs Kane May Primary Sen. Lamar Alexander

  
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  Glenn Jacobs, perhaps better known as the wrestler “Kane” from WWE , may be considering a primary challenge to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Jacobs, who identifies philosophically as a libertarian and supported both of Ron Paul’s presidential campaigns, has made waves recently by challenging Tennessee Lt. Gov. ...
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• CMS provides in-depth guidance on discharge planning

  
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  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service has revised its  guidance  on discharge planning, offering hospitals in-depth guidelines to help promote better patient care outcomes and reduce readmissions. read more
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• Insurance Matters

  
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  Medigap added to Medicare means more spending: [E]mployer-sponsored and self-purchased supplemental coverage were associated with annual spending growth rates of 7.17 percent and 7.18 percent, respectively, compared to 6.08 percent for beneficiaries without supplemental coverage. In the first empirical study of the ...
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• Medicares "BLUE BUTTON" Can Help You Track Care (VIDEO)

  
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• Too Big to Jail

  
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  ‘Too Big to Jail’  is a compelling story of a man named “Joe” and “low level” government employees By Patrick Millsaps The late, great Lewis Grizzard attended the University of Georgia with a man named “Joe,” where they developed a lifelong friendship.  Joe grew up poor in rural Southwest ...
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• Hospital Chargemasters and Open Data from CMS — The conversation continues

  
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  By David Harlow First Posted at HealthBlawg on 5/19/2013 When CMS recently released hospital chargemaster and payment data for the 100 hospital codes most frequently billed to Medicare, there was much written and said about the significance of the data release. Some found this to be significant; others (including your ...
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• Why the Oregon Medicaid study is misunderstood

  
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  Much has already been written about the  Oregon Medicaid study that came out in the New England Journal of Medicine . Unfortunately, the vast majority is reflex, rather than reflection.  The study seems to serve as a Rorschach test of sorts, confirming people’s biases about whether Medicaid is “good” or ...
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• Obamacare and the Droogies

  
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  Celebration as House passes Obamacare. On January 1, 2014, America comes to grips with Obamacare full force.  That is the date when the most odious parts of the law become fully in force and enforced, with the imposition of fines and penalties for non-compliance. Even after all of the President’s carnival ...
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• The Open Data Movement – Leveling the Playing Field For Consumers

  
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  The post The Open Data Movement – Leveling the Playing Field For Consumers appeared first on Innovation Toronto. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Harris represents the GOP (for a week, anyway)

  
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  If you do the math and factor in for various other elected officials along the way, on average any given member of Congress should deliver his or her party’s response to the weekly Presidential address about once a decade. And while I’d have much rather avoided this situation because it’s a member of the party ...
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• CBS Investigates Life Care Centers’ Alleged Medicare Fraud

  
  Senior Care New — Authority: 147
  Former Life Care Centers of America employees are speaking out against the company, which is currently under federal scrutiny amid allegations it has been overbilling Medicare millions of dollars each year for unnecessary or excessive therapy, reports CBS This Morning (CTM). With more than 30,000 beds, Life Care ...
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• Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk

  
  MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads — Authority: 145
  An analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows that some doctors and other health professionals across the country prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive The post Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at ...
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• One of the reasons our health care costs are so high…

  
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  … is because we refuse to standardize prices for treatment.  I think I have told this story before but here it is again.  My French lab partner’s husband had a hernia operation.  It was outpatient and he spent about 4 hours in the hospital, not even enough time to get his gourmet meal.  When she got the bill, ...
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• The lesson of ‘Julius’

  
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  Remember last year when the Obama campaign came up with the idea for “Julia”, a fictional woman who was supposed to represent how Obama made life better for women everywhere? (You know, that phony, made-up ‘War on Women’ and all that.) I wrote about this  about a year ago. Well, one year later the good ...
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• Video Chart: Federal Revenue from Social Insurance Taxes Since 1950

  
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• About Prescriber Checkup, a tool for comparing health providers

  
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  Q. What’s the purpose of Prescriber Checkup ? A. We’ve made it easy to search for doctors and other health providers who are active in Medicare’s prescription drug program, called Part D. You can find out how many prescriptions each wrote and which drugs were prescribed. You can compare your doctor with ...
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• Saving for Retirement – Will You Have Enough?

  
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  3 Little-Known Factors That Could Affect Your Saving for Retirement I don’t want to be the one that bursts your bubble, but even as we are saving for retirement, the plain fact of the matter is that many of us will be working until the day we die. I can hear gasps of disbelief, and yes, some are laughing at this ...
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• Say goodbye to 2015/2016 income tax cuts

  
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  Due to a budget blowout caused by “an over-hang from the global financial crisis and strong Australian dollar”, the federal government has informally announced (drip fed via a series of casual comments in various interviews) that the income tax cuts, that were to take effect from 1 July 2015, are no longer going ...
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