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SEIU ULTCW and other community partners rallied at the Social Security Administration against Medicare Cuts proposed by the Super Committee and Congress. ULTCW President Laphonza Butler speaks on the importance of Medicare in providing health care for all Americans. |
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Interview with Maria Freese, Director of Government Relations and Policy, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. She discusses HR 6331 which is still unsettled. After the the July Fourth holiday, congress will have about a week to fix the dispute. At issue is preventing the proposed physician fee cuts by cutting Medicare payments to private insurance companies in the Medicare Advantage Program. The insurance industry is fighting the cuts, and the bill is hung up in the Senate. Emeritus News |
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Medicare Then And Now
Medicare News, Syndicated
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Apr 072011
As Congress weighs changes to Medicare, Renee Montagne talks with NPR's health policy correspondent Julie Rovner about the evolution of the program and why it is so expensive today.
Statement By Medicare Rights Center President Joe Baker On The Passage Of The Medicare And Medicaid Extenders Act Of …
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Dec 122010
In passing the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010, Congress did right by people with Medicare. This bill prevents important Medicare programs from expiring at the beginning of 2011. Most importantly, it averts deep cuts to Medicare physician payments, and will keep them at the current rate until 2012. The prevention of these cuts in physician payments, which are the result of the ...
Nov 282010
PORT CHESTER — Dr. Jonathan Herbst has been the family doctor to generations of patients in this community. But he will have to turn away some of the older patients if Congress doesn't act before Wednesday to prevent a threatening 23 percent pay cut to doctors who treat seniors with Medicare.
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