Deal could hurt medicare in long run
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The health agreement reached between Ottawa and the provinces is a curious document. On the one hand, it puts Ottawa back in the game by committing the federal government to ratchet up its share of medicare funding.
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Some Iowans may cut back on their coverage, and the state faces having to pay more for Medicaid, officials say. Sharply higher Medicare premiums announced last week by the Bush administration will have a double
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The cost of living adjustment intended to help more than 47 million Social Security recipients keep up with inflation is expected to be a tad larger in 2005 than it was this year, but the bad news is that much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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Older Americans will have to pay about 17 percent more next year -- the largest increase in Medicare's history -- for their government-run health insurance, U.S. officials announced on Friday.
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The costs of caring for elderly  people with diabetes, a growing population, are threatening to  overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care,  according to a new analysis of Medicare claims.
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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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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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Big U.S. businesses will in general maintain retiree health benefits next year despite fears they would be cut to compensate for benefits to the elderly in the new Medicare law, a survey found.
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Retirees with company-sponsored medical benefits face higher costs, more restrictions and different plan options as their former employers move to curb their spending on such perks, a new study said.
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The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.
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Older Americans are confused and unhappy about upcoming changes in the federal Medicare health program, according to a nonpartisan survey released on Tuesday that indicates the issue could help Democrats win the November vote.
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The preliminary decision applies to patients over 60, which is most of the 43 million people Medicare covers.
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DETROIT - As bargainers for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. continue to haggle across a table in Detroit, the big issue in the critical contract talks comes down to this: If GM pays the union to take on the company's huge retiree healthcare obligations, can the UAW's investments return more than the rate of healthcare inflation?
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For the first time in its history, Medicare has begun to systematically make payments for new and expensive treatments and diagnostic tests conditional on agreement by companies or other groups
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of $58.
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Cuts to Medicare will hurt the elderly and community cancer centers in the United States, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
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HE new, sharply higher charges announced for Medicare beneficiaries last week may prompt more elderly people to join Medicare health maintenance organizations operated by private industry