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Two good medicare updates from HealthCare.gov: People with Medicare Save More Than $4 Billion on Prescription Drugs Partnerships with Pharmacies to Educate Medicare Beneficiaries About Health Benefits
From Politico: Democrats had been counting on taking aim at Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan. By DAVID NATHER | 7/31/11 11:25 PM EDT President Barack Obama’s health care law has high negative ratings, and they’re not getting any better. But House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan has high negatives, too — and they’re not…
From Politico: By JENNIFER HABERKORN | 7/28/11 12:41 PM EDT President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner failed to strike a “grand bargain” on the nation’s deficit, but they may have pulled off another trick: revolutionizing the debate over Medicare. When they both accepted the idea of increasing the Medicare eligibility age to 67,…
From The New England Journal of Medicine: Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D. | July 20, 2011 Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont recently signed into law ambitious health care reform legislation that puts Vermont on course to implement a single-payer health care system. The law creates a Health Benefit Exchange, consistent with the federal Affordable Care Act,…
From Politico: The Obama administration could be faced with obligations to spend cash it doesn’t have. By J. LESTER FEDER| 7/21/11 10:47 PM EDT A default scenario is so unthinkable that not too many people have thought about what happens to Medicare and Medicaid if a deal isn’t reached. One longtime Washington health hand said…
From Politico: The author writes that both sides can declare victory if they agree on health care finance. By STEPHEN T. PARENTE | 7/17/11 9:30 PM EDT A frustrated President Barack Obama last week reportedly declared “enough is enough” during one debt limit discussion with Republicans. Frustration aside, the problem is that both parties have…
From The Incidental Economist: Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt–July 8, 2011 at 3:26 pm We’re getting a strange amount of pushback from people who deny that their employer-sponsored health insurance is “subsidized”. Some deny that a tax deduction is a subsidy. Some deny the existence of “tax expenditures” at all. The first column is the…
From Dollars & Sense: By Gerald Friedman America’s broken health-care system suffers from what appear to be two separate problems. From the right, a chorus warns of the dangers of rising costs; we on the left focus on the growing number of people going without health care because they lack adequate insurance. This division of…
From The Hill: By Julian Pecquet – 06/28/11 10:07 AM ET Almost half a million seniors on Medicare had saved a combined $260 million on their medicines by the end of last month thanks to the healthcare reform law, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. A total of 478,272 people have taken advantage of the law’s…
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