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 Health & Wellness  Kactus - 2 days ago - bulletin.aarp.org companies don't offer the same benefits in his hometown of Delray Beach, a Palm Beach County community, as they do in Miami, only about 50 miles away. He is furious. Read on....!!
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 Health & Wellness  Ombretta - 3 days ago - nytimes.com I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Premiums to Rise in '09 - Washingtonpost.Com
Health & Wellness  Michael - 55 days ago - washingtonpost.com The average monthly premium for Medicare's prescription drug plan will increase to an estimated $28 in 2009, three dollars more than this year's monthly premium, Medicare officials announced Thursday.
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 Health & Wellness  Holly - 156 days ago - nytimes.com State officials say they are still receiving complaints of high-pressure sales tactics that have led some beneficiaries to sign up for unsuitable policies.
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 Health & Wellness  Sagar - 197 days ago - noedb.org From Medicare fraud to CEOs worth billions of dollars, drug companies are accused of putting profits above patients, spinning false PR campaigns. This article has uncovered 25 of the most shocking facts about the pharmaceutical industry in this list.
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 Health & Wellness  Jocelyn - 251 days ago - thepetitionsite.com In late 2007, thousands of people like you helped persuade Congress to put off their plan to slash payments to Medicare doctors for six months. Now that Congress is back in session, we need to make sure these cuts never happen at all!
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 Health & Wellness  Chrissy - 275 days ago - commonwealthfund.org In a Commonwealth Fund-supported study comparing preventable deaths in 19 industrialized countries, researchers found that the United States placed last. While the other nations improved dramatically between the two study periods--1997-98 and 2002-03--the
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Hospitals Rip Off Self-Paying, Poor Customers With Triple Prices Compared to Insurance Reimbursements
Health & Wellness  - 375 days ago - newstarget.com Hospitals in the United States have been charging self-paying patients, including the uninsured, vastly more for health services than they charge insurance providers and much more than the maximum costs allowed by Medicare, according to a 2004 study.....
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 Health & Wellness  Rabbit - 398 days ago - cms.hhs.gov Medicare will provide funding for health insurance counseling in every state to help beneficiaries get the most from the health program for elderly and disabled persons, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today.
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 Health & Wellness Rabbit - 398 days ago - ssa.gov Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that Social Security has issued a final regulation to extend the quick disability determination (QDD) process to all State disability determination services.
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 Health & Wellness  Mary - 454 days ago - nytimes.com ....."It shows how unfair our system is," said Louise Russell, a research professor at the Institute for Health at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. "These people were not getting care, and they were at least as in need of it as the people who....
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Medicare Considers Withholding Payments to Hospitals When They Fail to Keep Patients Safe
Health & Wellness  Lauren - 481 days ago - consumersunion.org Consumers Union Supports Proposed Medicare Rules Aimed at Reducing Hospital Infections & Medical Errors. The federal government should move forward to restrict Medicare payments to hospitals for the cost of health care associated with certain infections
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 Health & Wellness  Blue - 611 days ago - nytimes.com More Medicare recipients would pay higher premiums for coverage of drugs and doctors' visits under the president's 2008 budget.
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