Senate budgeters target Medicare plan
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When Doug Morris joined Medicare last spring, the retired college professor went right to work reading the handbook that explained his benefits, expenses and rights. All 107 excruciating pages.
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US Medicare officials sought a compromise with private insurers on Monday by dividing the country into more regions, a ruling that could encourage more firms to broaden
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Depending on whom you ask, the budget that President Bush proposed  last week will save or sink Medicare and Medicaid, two popular programs that, along with Social Security, threaten to swamp the federal budget as the baby-boom generation retires.
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In his new budget, President Bush will call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare and he will again seek major savings in Medicaid.
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A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday signaled a willingness to work with President George W. Bush on an effort to improve the U.S. health care system, saying it was crucial to rein in costs and expand coverage to the uninsured.
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Some Democrats in Congress, looking at the 17 percent jump in Medicare premiums due to go into effect next year, say there ought to be legislation delaying the increase for a year.
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The senatorâs plan aims to cover uninsured Americans and to reduce premium costs for everyone else.
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The Bush administration said Monday it would carve the country into multiple coverage regions to get private insurers to offer Medicare prescription
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Yesterday was Health Care Day in North Carolina&#39;s race for the US Senate, as Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Richard Burr rolled out competing prescriptions to treat the nation&#39;s health-care system.
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Senate Republicans say the revamping of Social Security is their top legislative goal of 2005, with further tax cuts, energy independence and lawsuit limits listed as other issues that will get their attention in the coming months.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, in his the final budget, will propose a $3 trillion plan that would freeze or cut Medicare and other domestic programs and will touch off election-year battles with Congress.
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The Democratic-controlled Senate Thursday began debating a huge spending bill covering about one-sixth of the federal budget as the final step in completing the unfinished budget business inherited from Republicans.
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Millions of older Americans are confronting a temporary break in their Medicare drug coverage this month that will require them to pay the full cost of their prescriptions or face the painful prospect of going without.
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A group of 10 senators &#151; five Republicans and five Democrats &#151; told President Bush on Tuesday that they have agreed on a blueprint for increasing health insurance coverage, and they would like to work with him on it.
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Doctors who treat the elderly and disabled will face a 10 percent cut in their reimbursement rates from Medicare next year under a federal rule issued Thursday.
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The senators want to know whether the federal agency that insures private pension plans has enough money and the right approach to do its job.
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A bipartisan accord in the House calls for a $150 billion spending plan, including significant tax rebates. But senators may want add-ons.