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Grannies sing and dance a spirited rendition of: "Stop! In the Name of Health, Don't Cut My Medicare." Join them to tell President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, and all representatives and senators: no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. We need to improve and expand Medicare to all! |
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Medicare Open Enrollment will run until the end of the year, allowing those with Medicare the chance to review their health and drug plans.
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It is estimated that five out of ten people turning 67 will use a nursing home at some point in their lives and many will need home care and other related services as well About two-thirds of people in nursing homes have no living relatives. And about 70 percent of all nursing home patients are women. Nursing home costs are estimated to be $75,000 in 2009, which would economically devastate most families. The federal government will not be helping either, unless you are without any assets, Medicare will cover you for a maximum of 100 days, but there are no social security benefits to cover any of these expenses. The only program that can assist you is Medicaid, but the catch is you must qualify. You can protect yourself from Medicaid nursing home costs by taking action now while you still have your health; the key is in the planning, which this new, groundbreaking book will assist you with. On February 8, 2006, President Bush signed a law called the Deficit Reduction A (more…)
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“This slender volume offers value on several dimensions. First, it is an explication of recent history that connects the dots from prospective payment to Medicare-based deficit reduction to cost shifting to managed care. By the same token, the story here serves as a bracing corrective to the mythology of market-based reform and the assumption that government’s role in health is inescapably a negative one.” — “Whether discussing the Social Security Amendments of 1972 or the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Mayes and Berenson entertain readers with insider anecdotes about the ideological and practical battles government policymakers fought with powerful provider lobbies.” — New England Journal of Medicine”A highly readable book that traces the history of Medicare prospective payment systems from their enactment in 1983 until today.” — Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law”An exhaustively researched and provocative tale of the politics behind how doctors and hos (more…)
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