Making hay over the rise in Medicare
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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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Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the Bush administration said Friday. The &#36;11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program's 40-year-history.
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Health insurance companies are offering more Medicare HMO choices this year, but some local seniors say they aren&#39;t interested.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise about 17.4 percent next year, the Bush administration said yesterday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program&#39;s 40-year history.
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OTTAWA -- Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers shooting holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of $58.
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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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Sen. John Kerry blamed the just-announced increase in Medicare premiums on a &quot;failed policy&quot; by President Bush yesterday while campaigning in this crucial state.
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To cope with rising health care costs, companies are asking current retirees to pay more for health insurance and some are telling future retirees to do without, according to a study released yesterday.
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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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In a tug of war over the skyrocketing costs of medical technology, the makers of implantable defibrillators are opposing a plan by Medicare to track the health outcomes of patients who get the devices.
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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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 basic Medicare premium will rise next year to $93.50 a month, an increase of $5, the Bush administration announced Tuesday.
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Medicare faces trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities, but legislators are constantly tempted to increase benefits and thus spending.
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Health-care providers and pundits are applauding the medicare deal while trying to figure out who will get what. The deal, announced early yesterday, will see $18 billion over six years flowing to the provinces
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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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WASHINGTON - 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.    The Social Security Administration was announcing the new cost of living adjustment, or COLA, Tuesday, but in advance of the release many private economists were predicting a gain of slightly better than 2.5 percent, which would be up from the increase Social Security recipients received at the beginning of this year of 2.1 percent...