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• Reminder: Medicare notice deadline coming soon

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  The deadline for providing the Medicare Part D creditable coverage notice is almost here. Any employer who sponsors a health plan with prescription drug coverage must provide the notice by Nov. 15. If you sponsor such a plan, your notice must explain the benefits provided under your prescription drug plan and ...
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• Part D Low Income Subsidy

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 425
  by Mary Jane Stern Medicare Part D offers a L ow I ncome S ubsidy ( LIS ) or extra help to pay for part of the costs associated with the plan.  The Part D costs include your deductible, premium and copayments.  Some beneficiaries may qualify for all or a partial subsidy. Of course this isn’t easy ...
  2 days ago

• America’s Seniors Need Health Care Reform

  
  Entitled to Know — Authority: 454
  The House expects to vote on health care reform this weekend .  It’s hard to exaggerate how important this vote is for the future of Medicare, its long-term viability and the millions of American seniors who depend on it.     If you, or a loved one, are covered under Medicare and have been sitting on the ...
  6 days ago

• Here’s What Health Care Reform Means for Working Families

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
    The AFL-CIO is running an ad in support of health care reform in newspapers in the Washington, D.C., area.   Within days, the U.S. House will vote on a historic health care reform bill that will cover everyone, cut costs and protect families from insurance company abuses. The House bill, H.R. ...
  1 week ago

• Profit at Humana Rises 65% – Employer Enrollment Down Medicare Advantage Grows

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The company reported a better than expected result.  As with most of the other carriers, the employer ranks continue to fall as either it’s too expensive or small employers are dropped.  BD  Humana , the health insurer, posted on Monday a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit , as bulging membership ...
  1 week ago

• The Taxes On Obamacare Will Make You Sick

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  Obamacare will work. You will have to stay healthy. With the massive tax increases we will all face, no one will be able to afford to call of from work and lose a day’s pay. Americans for Tax Reform has culled the 1990-page Pelosi health-care overhaul bill to find the taxes that will supposedly collect over $540 ...
  1 week ago

• Too Many Lies about Healthcare Reform and Medicare

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 425
  by Mary Jane Stern Have you been watching all of the statements being made about the changes in Medicare if healthcare reform is passed? Do you believe them? Some of the statements being made are just cruel and inhuman.  It’s like what Sarah Palin, Senator Grassley wrote and said about how President Obama ...
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• Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit plan

  
  Cancer Information — Authority: 98
  Millions of seniors have enrolled in the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit plan. However, the task of choosing a plan may seem daunting and can often be confusing for seniors even after they have enrolled.   The decision to participate is important, and careful consideration is vital to ensure a plan ...
  1 week ago

• Public Option and Affordability Credits, House-style

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 419
  The public option contained in the House Bill today is actually not as watered-down as many might think. It’s certainly better than what the Energy and Commerce Committee had in their version, but it’s also not as great as the Medicare +5 option might have been. The Public Option Here are the key points, with ...
  1 week ago

• Part D Negotiation Will Save Billions

  
  Entitled to Know — Authority: 454
  The House’s proposed health care reform bill  (a merged version of three earlier House bills) has been unveiled today.  Newsweek’s The Gaggle blog  has an early review of the main provisions:  The change that will perhaps have the most impact on Americans is the expansion of Medicaid. Under Pelosi’s ...
  1 week ago

• Medication Adherence and Medicare’s Part D Prescription Drug Program

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 126
  If only it were an urban legend that senior citizens in the United States were cutting their physician-prescribed pills in half or ignoring their medications altogether in order to have enough money for food and utilities, but one doesn’t need academic studies to know that this kind of economically-forced ...
  1 week ago

• BlueMedicare Regional PPO

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 423
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) has introduced a new Medicare Advantage plan to its portfolio of health plans for seniors. BlueMedicare Regional PPO joins a senior health insurance portfolio which already included HMO, PPO, Fee-for-service, Medicare Part D, and traditional Medicare Supplement Plans . ...
  2 weeks ago

• They gave us Part D, now protect it from reform

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 431
  ProPublica’s Olga Pierce reports that at least 25 of the folks who helped push through pharma-friendly Medicare Part D six years ago are back as lobbyists,and this time they’re fighting to make sure the plan isn’t reduced by reform-related budget cuts . Photo by sean dreilinger via Flickr. Pierce’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medicare Drug Planners Now Lobbyists, With Billions at Stake

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 428
  by Olga Pierce, ProPublica Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollars of profits for pharmaceutical companies. Today, at least 25 of those key players are back, but this time they’re lobbyists, trying to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why We Need 72 Hours to Read Legislation, and How You Can Help

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  Whoever said, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you,” never went to Congress. Sometime this year, perhaps very soon, both chambers in Congress likely will be asked to vote on a monumental healthcare bill — monumental in its scope, its cost, and the actual number of pages in the legislation. And while many ...
  3 weeks ago

• United Healthcare Profits Rise 13% for 3rd Quarter

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  Employer enrollment was down, so fewer companies being able to afford or perhaps have the ability to offer employer health insurance.  Federal subsidies on Cobra also helped the profit picture with the government kicking in to help those unemployed keep coverage.  As I have posted before, the company is making more ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Site for Medicare Part D Comparisons

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 425
  One very time consuming project during the 2008 open enrollment was finding a new Medicare Part D plan.  I began by using Medicare’s site so I could find all the stand alone plans in my state.  This was good and got all the plans and the premiums.  But, after finding the plans and reviewing the premiums, the next ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Official…Zero Social Security COLA Next Year

  
  Entitled to Know — Authority: 454
  Courtesy: Flickr-elpadawan As expected, the Social Security Administration announced a zero cost of living adjustment for Social Security beneficiaries in 2010. This is from the SSA’s news release  :  “With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income ...
  3 weeks ago

• McCaskill Vs. OReilly on Healthcare

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 152
  Sen. Claire McCaskill and Bill OReilly debate the healthcare bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee today.
  4 weeks ago

• Existing healthcare bills have a huge effect on Medicare’s financing

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  SF Gray Panthers, October 11, 2009 Existing healthcare bills have a huge effect on Medicare’s financing In response to the New York Times blog “ Current Health Care Legislation Will Not Control Medical Costs, Experts Warn ” a representative of the San Francisco Gray Panthers wrote: Existing bills have a ...
  4 weeks ago

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