Tag: Medicare

Study: Hospital Discharge of Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Utilization Rates and Spending Post Discharge

An observational trial published in the latest issue of Annals shows that…

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Debt Ceiling Deal Rattles Healthcare Delivery Prospects, Social Security and Medicaid Spared

The initial spin on the recently squared away budget deal preventing a…

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Medicare Pays to Treat Heart Patients Who Smoke, but Doesn’t Help Them Quit

Cardiac patients who continue to smoke face a risk of death that…

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Will Washington Prevent a Cure for Cancer?

The United States can rightly claim the title of medicine chest to…

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Health Care Reform in 2 Short Sentences

Foes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) made a…

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Can the Gang of Six Change the Way We Pay For Health Care?

A bipartisan group of senators is proposing to reduce the federal deficit…

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Debt Ceiling Negotiations on Health Care are Mere Cost Shifting

The US definitely seems to have weakened itself in the international sphere…

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Florida Proposing New Medicaid Fees

The state of Florida wants to impose $10 monthly premiums on Medicaid…

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Within Debt Ceiling Debate, House Dems ‘Just Say No’ to Medicare Cuts

Democrats don’t want them. House Minority Leader Pelosi reminded Obama about them.…

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The One Medicare Program that Actually Works

This is Avik Roy, writing in National Affairs: This is Avik Roy,…

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