Millions of Seniors Facing Medicare 'Doughnut Hole'
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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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With a new Medicare drug benefit set to begin in 2006, Americans 65 and older can expect to spend a large and growing share of their Social Security checks on
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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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By Chris MetinkoSTAFF  As the country's senior population grows by the day, local services and agencies are dealing with an influx of calls from those now caring for seniors who can no longer care for themselves.
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In December 2003, Bush signed the new Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act into law. Many seniors expected it to provide much needed relief from escalating health care costs.
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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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In just over a year, the 1.5 million US citizens who live in nursing homes will become eligible for the new prescription-drug benefit that is a part of the newly revamped Medicare law.
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Younger Americans who are overweight  today are threatening to hit the U.S. government's Medicare  system with big health care bills when they reach old age,  according to a report published on Tuesday.
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GREENDALE, Wis. - Violet Fojut, 88, isn't happy that the bingo games she and fellow senior citizens have participated in at the Cream City Cafeteria in the Southridge Mall won't be held any more. "It was always packed.
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For senior citizens enrolled in Medicare, nearly half the increase will be consumed by rising health insurance premiums, making this "good and bad news," said chief executive of the largest advocacy group for retirees.
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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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Massachusetts health insurers are promoting a new type of Medicare coverage for seniors in 2008 that potentially offers better coverage than traditional government-sponsored Medicare. The new plans, called private fee-for-service, also raise questions about the long-term direction of Medicare because they cost more than traditional coverage but are not held to higher quality and efficiency standards.
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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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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
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NEW YORK  - Men and women who are obese in  middle age will be up to twice as expensive to cover under  Medicare, the government health plan that kicks in after  Americans reach age 65, according to new study findings  reported Tuesday.
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They&#39;re not exactly giving away toasters to new members, but Medicare HMOs in South Florida are offering lots of new goodies to get senior citizens to join up.