Medicare Cost Estimates Spark Disputes in Congress
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Rising cost projections for the new  Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and  set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and  allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
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Congress's watchdog agency recommended yesterday that former Medicare administrator Thomas Scully reimburse the Health and Human Services Department for roughly half of his $145,600 salary, on grounds that he improperly ordered his agency's top actuary to withhold cost estimates from Congress.
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Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of uninsured Americans, such a plan would be unlikely to cut costs.
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It sounded simple enough on the campaign trail: Free the government to negotiate lower drug prices and use the savings to plug a big gap in Medicare's new prescription-drug benefit. But as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, they are struggling to keep that promise without wrecking a...
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer is proposing cuts in Medicaid, saying the costs are too high, but a closer look at the numbers calls his claims into question.
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Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in private, managed care plans cost the government 12.4 percent more than those in the traditional program last year, for a total cost of more than $5.2 billion, according to a study released Thursday.
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Congressional Democrats and the Treasury Department disagree over the amount of unpaid taxes that could be collected.
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Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), chairman of the House federal workforce subcommittee, is increasingly skeptical of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government. He's also a little frustrated.
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The most authoritative report on the cost of health insurance came out Tuesday, and itÂs sure to cause some new outrage.
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MONDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDay News) -- One part of the new Medicare drug plan passed by Congress earlier this year could live up to its advance clippings and save people a lot of money. But some people could end up spending more than &#36;750 out-of-pocket even after they participate in the program.
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A new poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans favor allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices for the Medicare program, suggesting there will be considerable political pressure on the next Congress to do so.
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State budget pressures threaten to undo gains in health insurance coverage for children and the poor, according to two surveys released Monday.
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A House of Representatives panel on Thursday rejected along party lines a Democratic bid to force the Bush administration to turn over records about the estimated cost of last year&#39;s Medicare drug bill.
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Depending on whose interpretation of a new study one wants to believe, Medicare may â or may not â have saved money since the introduction of the stents in 2003.
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In some cases, fights in Congress have slowed progress, or the U.S. government has focused on other priorities. In other cases, the cost of IT projects has been an issue.
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Soon to be in charge of Congress, Democrats are looking to chip away at billions of dollars in payments to the health insurance companies that run Medicare's managed care programs.
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Federal number crunchers said yesterday that the new Medicare drug benefit appears to be slowing the growth in national spending on prescription medicines because the drug plans are negotiating lower prices with drug companies.