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Retirement Investment Advisors Eye Poor Prognosis ...       May 14, 2009
News: The grim prognosis for Social Security and Medicare delivered by trustees of those programs has advisors scrambling to make sense of the short- and long ...
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Medicare Likely to Drop Coverage of Surgery for ...       November 18, 2008
News: As the largest single payer of health care in the country, Medicare's proposal to no longer cover a procedure strongly influences what procedures employers ...
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Medicare will Not Pay for 'Never Events'       October 1, 2008
News: Hospitals that injure their patients will no longer be reimbursed by Medicare for their errors beginning Wednesday, October 1.
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Drive for Robust Public Option in Health Care ...       October 26, 2009
... among House Democratic leaders for a robust public option health care plan based on paying providers Medicare rates plus 5 percent appears to be weakening.
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Health Reform Speech Precedes Expected Medicare ...       February 25, 2009
News: President Barack Obama pledged to reform the faltering health care system by year's end, calling its costs 'crushing' and parlaying wholesale change on modernizing how care is delivered and by pushing Americans to live healthier lives.
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Congressional Budget Office Finds Preventive, ...       August 11, 2009
... actually drive up costs rather than reduce them, and potentially overstep programs already in place in Medicare and private health plans.
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House Democrats Roll Out Health Care Reform Plan ...       July 15, 2009
... controversial tax on high-income earners, a public insurance plan that would pay hospitals and doctors Medicare rates, and a requirement that all Americans ...
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Hospitals Agree to Forgo $155 Billion for Health ...       July 9, 2009
News: The nation's hospitals agreed Wednesday, July 8, to give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments during the next 10 years, with those ...
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Report: Health Care Spending Growth Rate Slowed ...       January 6, 2009
2 trillion, or $7,421 per person, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in its annual report on health care spending trends.
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