Medicare Premiums to Rise by 17.5 Percent
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The 42 million disabled and elderly Medicare beneficiaries will be hit with the largest premium increase in 15 years, Bush administration officials said Friday.
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Federal officials say rising costs, increased payments and some new benefits mean Medicare must raise its Part B premium 17% next year for most of the nearly 42 million seniors and disabled people covered by the program.
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CHICAGO: Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than US workersâ salaries this year, according to a survey released last Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.
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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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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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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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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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A day after President Bush heralded his efforts to help the elderly cope with increased medical expenses, federal officials announced the largest premium increase in
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More than 47 million Americans will get a 2.7 percent increase in their Social Security checks starting in January, meaning an additional &#36;25 per month for the typical retiree. But almost half of that gain will be gobbled up by a record increase in Medicare premiums.
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Employers' health premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, according to a benchmark study released yesterday that reinforces voter concerns about the US healthcare system.
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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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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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Description: An increase in Medicare premiums announced this month is raising the issue&#39;s profile on the 2004 campaign trail. NPR&#39;s Julie Rovner assesses both major party presidential candidates&#39; claims about Medicare.
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The Bush administration said that Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year would lead to much higher premiums in 2006.
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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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The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with incomes over about $80,000 a year, administration officials said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the largest increase in the program's 40-year history, the Bush administration said Friday.    Monthly payments for Part B of the government health care program - doctor visits and most other non-hospital expenses - will jump to $78.20 from $66.60...