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Quarter-Billion Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Penis Pumps

According to data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare has spent more than $240 million of taxpayer more

The BIG 'Cluster'

President Obama and a Democratic Congress decided to short-change Social Security by $120 billion this year in the name of a stimulus — more

Un-Happy Holidays for Seniors and the Disabled, Here’s Your ...

this holiday season if you know someone who relies on some combination of Medicare and supplemental benefits to help with their medical more

Republicans Try to Impose Selfishness on American People

Medicare Savings

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Medicare Advantage Plans: Are They for You?

One in four. That’s the number of Medicare beneficiaries—nearly 12 million in all—who get their health insurance (and often, a few more

Medicare Part D Plans

Social Security recipients are about to receive some good news – a 3.6 percent increase in their benefits starting in January 2012.

Dean Baker: The Myth of the Wealthy Elderly

The austerity gang seeking cuts to Social Security and Medicare has been vigorously promoting the myth that the elderly are an especially more

NEWLOOK DE MODEL 'Soft Opening Medicar Clinic'

... ขอบคุณ เมดิแคร์ คลินิก ที่ได้มอบความไว้วางใจ more

Jane Gross on the Failings of Medicare

In the most recent Sunday New York Times, Jane Gross gives a devastating critique of Medicare's Failure to support the needs of the most more

PPI Fact Sheet: Many Medicare Part D Plans to Raise Premiums ...

This annually updated AARP Public Policy Institute Fact Sheet provides an overview of the Medicare Part D program, as well as the more

Quality Indicators Can Cause Harm in Older Patients: An ...

Quality indicators are used to measure the quality of health care delivered to patients. Quality indicators are used extensively in the VA more

Medicare Part B premiums for 2012 lower than projected

Medicare Part B premiums for 2012 lower than projected

What Medicare Cuts May Mean For Patients Who See Psychiatrists

Over on Shrink Rap News, Roy wrote a post about proposed Medicare cuts. He continued the conversation here on Shrink Rap.
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Medicare: Access to Mental Health Care in Danger

In many states, Medicare fees are at the bottom of the barrel, prompting physicians and other health care providers to stop accepting new more

Deficit talks shift toward blame game

A week before their deadline, Democrats and Republicans on a special joint deficit committee blamed each other for a failure to compromise more

The Medicare Hospice Benefit: A Challenge to the Concerns About ...

I was very disappointed with the recent New York Times Article "Concerns About Costs Rise With Hospices' Use." The article paints an more

Five ways to squeeze Medicare

Five ways to squeeze Medicare: It would be politically difficult and unpopular, but it is possible to trim the expanding program.