AMA and Labor at odds over Medicare Gold
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TONY EASTLEY: AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson might like to get a flak jacket and a tin helmet as he comes under continued heavy fire from the Labor Party for criticising its Medicare Gold policy for over 75&#39;s.
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Why pay rebates to a select group of elderly? A universal Medicare should look after them all. When Opposition Leader Mark Latham was admitted to hospital as a public patient, he was personally, if painfully, demonstrating a crucial point about Medicare.
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Controversial new rules regarding overtime pay went into effect Monday, with the Bush administration and labor advocates squabbling over how many US workers are affected.
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Physician reimbursement accounts for a third of the increase, and it could become a target for political battle. Washington -- The steep rise in next year&#39;s Medicare Part B premiums can be tied in part to
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail
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Many experts are concerned that the new Medicare law will be unworkable for most Americans who live in nursing homes.
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The U.S. Medicare agency, under fire for restricting payments for anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson, said on Wednesday no new evidence has emerged to support reversing the policy.
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Callers to the U.S. government's hotline for the Medicare health program for senior citizens are increasingly frustrated by the service, according to a poll released on 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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Amid Social Security debate, this week's news on drug-benefit costs hint at a $27 trillion Medicare obligation.
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TORONTO -- The spectre of Ontario&#39;s controversial health-care premium returned to haunt the Liberal government Monday amid a growing controversy over whether some unionized workers should be expected to pay for it.
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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.
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Labor leader Mark Latham&#39;s plans for older Australians has received a mixed reaction from interest groups. At Labor&#39;s campaign launch yesterday, he promised to pay for the hospital costs of all Australians
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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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Thousands of mistaken refunds point to a strained relationship between the Social Security and Medicare programs.
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Thousands of Massachusetts senior citizens with Medicare drug benefits have received automated phone calls from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in recent days asking them to repay up to $1,400 because Medicare failed to automatically deduct monthly premiums from their Social Security checks.
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In Maryland, requests from state's largest malpractice insurer to raise premiums an average of 41 percent has triggered a fierce debate.