Medicare Premiums Rising 17 Percent in 2005
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The US government has announced a record increase in Medicare premiums for 2005, and all depending which side you&#39;re on in the Presidential race, it&#39;s either an enhanced package for senior citizens, or the elderly population is being socked with the
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Increases in health insurance premiums for working families slowed for the third straight year in 2006, but still rose at a rate more than double that of inflation and growth in workers' pay, an annual nationwide survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record &#36;11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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Hit with a record-high increase in Medicare premiums, seniors also are being bombarded with competing claims by the presidential candidates over who to blame.
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Health premiums rose five times faster than US workers&#39; salaries this year, according to a survey released on Thursday, a trend analysts said is likely to throw more people into the ranks of the uninsured.
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Most people will have to pay 5.6 percent more for basic Medicare coverage next year, but more affluent beneficiaries can expect increases as high as 83.2 percent as the federal government for the first time requires wealthier seniors to pay higher premiums, Medicare officials announced today.
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Health premiums rose five times faster  than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according to a survey  released on Thursday, a trend analysts said is likely to throw  more people into the ranks of the uninsured.
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We shouldn&#39;t have been so shocked when the Bush administration sneaked out the news under cover of the Labor Day weekend that the Medicare Part B monthly premium is rising next year by 17.
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Employers watched their health insurance premiums jump 11.2 percent in 2004, lower than last year&#39;s hike of nearly 14 percent but about five times the rate of inflation and the increase in workers&#39; earnings, according to a closely watched annual survey of
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WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the Bush administration said Friday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program's 40-year-history...
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The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums has increased 6.1 percent this year, below the 7.7 percent increase in 2006, a new report says.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News)  -- The three-year-old Medicare Part D drug program is seeing the number of its enrollees climb, even as costs for the program fall, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.
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Older Americans will have to pay about 17 percent more next year for their government-run health insurance, U.S. officials announced on Friday.
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Many elderly and disabled Americans participating in the Medicare drug benefit next year will have more plans to choose from as the number of companies offering coverage nationwide jumps to 17.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The new Medicare prescription drug plan was largely responsible for an 18.7 percent increase in Medicare spending in 2006, which was double the increase in spending from the year before, U.S. health officials report.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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Local congressional candidates have weighed in on the 17 percent increase in Medicare Part B monthly premiums recently announced by the Bush administration.