Politics and Legislation
The Wall Street Journal, November14th, 2009When Doug Foth, a retired accountant in Grandview, Wash., got ready to
sign up for Medicare last summer, he recruited his daughter, a human-
resources manager, to help him."We went through the Medicare Web
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Nevada Appeal, November 8th, 2009After a lifetime of hard work, no older American deserves to spend
their later years struggling with medical bills, foregoing or cutting
prescription drugs to make them last or avoiding preventative or basic
care because
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The New York Times, October 31st, 2009MEDICARE recipients, it’s your turn.For the last few weeks, my Patient Money colleague Lesley Alderman
and I have been giving advice on how to navigate the open enrollment
season for employee health benefits. But
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The Wall Street Journal, October 28th, 2009The federal government needs to further step up efforts to fight
Medicare and Medicaid fraud to generate more savings to help pay for a
health-care overhaul, lawmakers said Wednesday.
"The scale of health
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CBS News, October 25th, 2009Of all the problems facing the United States right now, none are more important than health care. President
Obama says rising costs are driving huge federal budget deficits that
imperil our future, and that there is enough
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US News & World Report, October 23rd, 2009The official 2010 Medicare premiums and deductibles for Part A
(hospital services) and Part B (doctor and non-hospital expenses) have
been released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS).
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The New York Times, October 19th, 2009The basic Medicare premium will shoot up next year by 15 percent, to $110.50 a month, federal officials said Monday.The increase means that monthly premiums would top $100 for the
first time, a stark indication
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Housing Wire, October 14th, 2009California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed seven mortgage
finance-related bills into state law Monday. The new laws aim to crack
down on fraud, set requirements for loan documents and set restrictions
on mortgage
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Market Watch, October 8th, 2009Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus promises
that the huge health-care reform bill his committee will vote on next
week will protect Medicare benefits for seniors. But not everyone
agrees, and a fight is brewing
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The Wall Street Journal, October 1st, 2009More than 660,000 seniors next year will lose the private Medicare
plans they now have because some insurers are dropping coverage in
response to tougher federal requirements.
Most of those beneficiaries are
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Chicago Daily Herald, October 2nd, 2009Declining home values have put a serious squeeze on one
of the mortgage market's most popular and fastest-growing financing
concepts: the Federal Housing Administration's reverse mortgage program
for seniors 62
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The New York Times, September 30th, 2009The recession is driving up enrollment in Medicaid
at higher than expected rates, threatening gargantuan state budget gaps
even as Congress and the White House seek to expand the government health insurance program
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Las Vegas Sun, September 10th, 2009Many Wall Street investment banks are on the verge of taking the
plunge into another scheme that involves bundling and reselling what
are thought to be sure-thing assets, just as bundled subprime mortgages
were thought
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The New York Times, September 10th, 2009 President Obama’s new call to impose automatic spending cuts if the health care overhaul adds “one dime” to federal budget deficits could help push his top domestic priority over one of the biggest hurdles in its
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The New York Times, September 9th, 2009Within the battle over President Obama’s
health care overhaul, critics of organized labor have latched onto a
little-noticed provision in the legislation already circulating in
Congress. The provision would cost
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