2009 Medicare Deductibles
The 2009 premiums, co-pays and deductibles are as follows: Part A Premiums : (Hospital) ... out of pocket expenses, a person with both Medicare A & B should look into either a Medicare Supplement or Medicare Advantage plan. www.JohnConner.com . John Conner 800-700-1246 [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 18:05:42
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Political Animal
Political Animal By Tobin Harshaw Well, the G.O.P. was once resuscitated by a former “B” actor, will it heed the call of a third-rate rock star? ... are leaving on the table for them. Item one on this agenda is the 800 pound gorilla of Social Security and Medicare. Frantic “anti-socialist” elements [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 14:08:20
Obama talks debt reduction with Rep. Henry Cuellar and other Blue Dogs
Laredo congressman Henry Cuellar and four dozen other conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats spent an hour this evening with President Barack Obama, talking of fiscal discipline and long-term debt reduction. With Congress crafting an $800 billion ... in Social Security, Medicare and other expensive entitlement programs. They reiterated their [more...]
Date: 2009-02-11 02:48:31
The GOP of the Future
The GOP of the Future November 13th, 2008 By JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor ... on the table for them. Item one on this agenda is the 800 pound gorilla of Social Security and Medicare. Frantic “anti-socialist” elements in the extreme fringe of the party who would see all Federal [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 13:01:36
OBAMA AT WORK:"Federal obligations exceed world GDP..."
As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, ... and Medicare benefits to be paid in the future, effectively have placed the U.S. government in bankruptcy ... cash accounting , the government makes no provision for future Social Security and Medicare [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 21:38:00
Obama's Budget Proposal Would Push Deficit to $1.75T
By William Branigin and Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 26, 2009 President Obama today unveiled a proposed $3 ... would effectively raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and trim Medicare costs to help pay ... of up to $400 for individuals and $800 for couples in 2009 and 2010. In addition to the budget for fiscal 2010 [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 01:51:00
Payroll Software
Author: piyu 1. EIN: Employer Identification Number ... (this is the easiest and fastest method) , by calling the Business & Specialty Tax Line at (800 ... payroll taxes. It includes information on employment taxes such as income, social security, Medicare [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 15:59:08
Rosy Scenario, can we believe?
Idaho State Journal Editorial Maybe President Obama learned something about negotiating in his mostly fruitless attempts to bring ... , all while boosting taxes on the wealthy and cutting Medicare payments to insurance companies ... of $400 for lower- and middle-class workers and $800 for families, and $634 billion over 10 years [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 02:55:49
Expanding Medicare Could Reverse Job Losses, and Repair Our Broken Healthcare System
By Chuck Idelson Communications Director California Nurses Association National Nurses Organizing Committee On a day in which Congress prepared to vote on the Obama administration's proposed $800 billion economic stimulus package, the nation's largest organization of registered nurses said expanding Medicare to cover all Americans would be one [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 14:01:24
CMS to Host Special Open Door Forum on DMEPOS Surety Bond Requirement
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it will host a Special Open Door Forum to discuss the implementation of ... , one must dial (800) 837-1935 and reference conference ID 88857015. For those unable to participate [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 18:43:03
Midweek Article Mix
Here are some articles to stimulate your thinking. 1. Social Significance Of Euphemisms - Via Everyday Socioloy - Why do we use words like “troops” and “escorts” to sanitize our discussions of difficult, disturbing, or controversial topics, like war and sex? There has been much talk of bringing the “troops” home and of “troop” casualties [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 18:32:48
Radical Welfare Socialism Assaults Free Enterprise Capitalism–The “Silent” Majority Responds!
Please Help Spread The Message of Liberty A Reminder from Ronald Reagan “The world is split today into two hostile camps, fighting each other with the utmost vehemence, Communists and anti-Communists. The magniloquent rhetoric to which these factions resort in their feud obscures the fact that they both perfectly agree in the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 00:10:45
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/20/2009
We don’t have a TV, so I was spared the inauguration. This morning, during a skype conversation, someone started telling me about the events as they were then unfolding in Washington.My response: “LALALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”I’ve got four (or more likely eight or more) years to get used to Obama. So I’m going to take my time.Thanks to C [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:50:00
Why? Barack Obama - This Boat Is Sinking
It’s the economy stupid! Obama is too busy attacking talk show hosts and dreaming up schemes to spend money we don’t have to actually bother with the job of fixing the economy and saving/creating a financial system that works. This is not an economics website but lately we are forced to devote ourselves almost exclusively to the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 18:29:18
Monday Morning Update 2/23/09
From Todd : "Re: Mass General. The Boston Globe reports that Mass General waited four days before alerting public health authorities that a wave of gastrointestinal illness was sweeping through one of their floors." Link . The hospital stopped admitting patients to the affected unit after nine patients and 18 employees came down with vomiting [more...]
Date: 2009-02-21 22:23:02
Geronticide… What Krauthammer Missed
There are only two categories of people that cross (s)words with Dr. Charles Krauthammer: geniuses and damned fools ... health care (especially for our aging society): Patient Family Doctor Government (Yeah… ... Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy — worthy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 18:20:30
Chump Change
When I was seven years old I took up coin collecting as a hobby. Back in those days there were still a lot of interesting coins in circulation: the buffalo nickel, the Mercury dime, the Liberty Walking half dollar, and — if you were patient and went through enough rolls of coins — the occasional Indian head penny or “V” nickel [more...]
Date: 2009-02-19 00:36:00
“WE HAVE BEEN GIVING CONCESSIONS ALL THESE YEARS TO ‘SAVE JOBS’ AND NOW EVERYONE IS GETTING LAID OFF” GM Lordstown Assembly workers speak out about givebacks, and their fears for their community’s future
from the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE: Layoffs at GM Lordstown plant ravage Ohio communities By Samuel Davidson 23 February 2009 General Motors recently announced plans to eliminate the second shift at its Lordstown, Ohio, complex in April, laying off 800 workers. Just last December GM cut the third shift at the facility, slashing [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 11:22:29
Understanding What Is In the Stimulus Package
It seems like no one really understands the stimulus package and because no one really understands it everyone is skeptical about it ... your health insurance cheaper, fix the roads you drive on and keep the best teachers in your children’ ... that was necessary to make sure it was right. That quote comes from an interesting site called Read [more...]
Date: 2009-02-22 05:39:19
Sounding Like The DLC
Gee, he really does sound like a Republican, doesn’t he? All Social Security needs is for them to remove the earnings cap ( ... public pension plan. As for Medicare spending, well, nothing wrong with that that single-payer ... Security and Medicare would be “a central part” of his administration’s efforts to contain federal [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 15:10:33
No Pork, Part II (by Russell Roberts)
Obama is aware that a few people might be skeptical of the government's ability to spend 500 or so billion dollars quickly and wisely ... $800 billion stimulus package under review by Congress -- dubbed the American Recovery ... and moderate Democrats are pressing Obama to tackle the looming challenge of skyrocketing Medicare [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:50:01
Busting the Ghosts of Hope
Expectations for Barack Obama’s presidency have continued to soar since his historic election. Millions believe change is possible ... in spiraling healthcare costs. WHAT WE NEED: Medicare for all! Established in the 1960s ... have to be increased to bring everyone into Medicare, but most people’s healthcare costs would go down while [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:44:52
Market on the Ropes
SUMMARY: - Some economic data breaks the string of worsening results, but market does not. - Q4 GDP revision tanks further, Q1 to be worse. - Chicago PMI, Michigan sentiment post modest improvement after, starting the watch for others to show the same. - Credit markets, having thawed post TALF, freeze once more on fiscal initiatives [more...]
Date: 2009-03-01 19:37:29
Surviving a coming USD collapse
by Christopher Laird, PrudentSquirrel.com | November 6, 2008 Now that the US election is over, we get to think about the Future. And, no matter how you look at it, the entire world, the West particularly, is in for tough sledding financially. First, we will continue to battle an emerging economic slowdown [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 02:21:25
Will there be another economic stimulus check?
With the recent announcement of President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill, there are probably at least 787 billion different questions ... covers health insurance, state funding, education, increased assistance for the poor, the environment ... and utilize Cobra to continue your coverage, the government will pickup 65% of the total premium [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 11:20:18
INTERVIEW - Steve Shields: “It’s Time To Plan for Transformation”
Steve Shields Steve Shields’ journey from heading up a long-shore drilling operation in the Middle East to becoming a key player in the eldercare culture change movement began with the loss of his mother. In the mid-80s, his mother had advanced Alzheimer’s and his father had Parkinson’s, two “headline diseases,” as he calls them [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 03:39:58
Obama budget: Mammoth deficits but headed lowerinformation, news | Add comments
-> President Barack ObamaPresident Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — ... one of us, have to compromise on certain things we care about but which we simply cannot afford right now.” [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 05:32:32
INTERVIEW - Steve Shields: “It’s Time To Plan for Transformation”
Steve Shields Steve Shields ’ journey from heading up a long-shore drilling operation in the Middle East to becoming a key player in the eldercare culture change movement began with the loss of his mother. In the mid-80s, his mother had advanced Alzheimer’s and his father had Parkinson’s, two “headline diseases,” as he calls them [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 05:23:01
Bold Obama Plan Sweeps Away Reagan Ideas: Health Insurance Changes
The budget that President Obama proposed on Thursday is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade era of economic policy dominated by the ... the groundwork for sweeping changes in health care and education, among other areas. The budget ... for non-wealthy residents each year; the elimination of subsidies for health insurers, banks [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 14:00:29
AFL-CIO Executive Council: Economic Recovery Package Good First Step
IBEW President Ed Hill, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney meet with workers at an IBEW training facility in Miami. In the AFL-CIO Executive Council’s first full day of meetings in Miami , union leaders today addressed vital aspects of reviving the nation’s economy for working families, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 23:54:19
AFL-CIO Executive Council: Economic Recovery Package Good First Step
IBEW President Ed Hill, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney meet with workers at an IBEW training facility in Miami. In the AFL-CIO Executive Council’s first full day of meetings in Miami , union leaders today addressed vital aspects of reviving the nation’s economy for working families, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 23:54:19
The Red Flags of Getting a Home Loan
Red flags are indicators that there may be a current or future problem with the borrower or transaction. They help Underwriters isolate pertinent issues that are part of the overall loan evaluation. They are questionable items, and when there are several, they usually indicate that something is “amiss” and should be investigated further [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 04:19:55
Throwdown 2/27
Random thoughts, questions, and observations for the week. 1. 31 August 2010. That’s the date President Obama has set for the withdrawal of at least half of the American forces in Iraq. Just wanted to get that out of the way first. I know a lot of people would’ve liked for it to have been sooner, but at least there’s an end in sight now [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 18:06:00
The U.S. health care system: a case study…
(Copyright 2009) A case study in the U.S. health care system, me: My first daughter was born when I was in the Army. My wife and I were covered by Uncle Sam. Back into civilian life: We were aware that having medical insurance was a good idea. Fortunately, my first employer out of the service, Kimberly-Clark, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 07:38:23
That Was Then, This Is Now
It’s no secret that there is no intellectual integrity on the Left, but it’s still hard not to be a bit shocked by liberals’ reaction to the budget proposal that Barack Obama unleashed yesterday. Let’s take the example of the New York Times, probably the most prominent voice of the Far Left in the U.S. Throughout the George W [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 16:01:05
Fiscal Responsibility Begins Abroad
Digby is sounding the alarm about the "fiscal responsibility summit" that President Obama will convene in February ... just get it done. According to the Pentagon Post (natch!), Social Security and Medicare are in the line ... and Medicare "bargain" with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:16:34
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Eclipse employees won’t receive paychecks for past two weeks
Eclipse Aviation employees who arrived at work today were told they wouldn’t be receiving paychecks for the past two weeks and were handed an 800 number. Federal immigration officials tell the New Mexican that they arrested nine people in late October in raids conducted in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe area. And Medicare premiums and co-pays may [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 15:49:50
Limbaugh, Hannity, and the GOP: an iron triangle of stimulus misinformation
On any given day during the current congressional debate over the economic recovery plan, chances are good that Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity will say something false about the administration's or congressional Democrats' efforts to pass a bill. And they do not promote these falsehoods in isolation; [more...]
Date: 2009-02-07 22:23:17
Benefits advocates help with medical bills
Do you hate dealing with medical bills? Help is at hand – if you can afford it – in the form of a health benefits advocate ... discount.” A tip from Galovich: If you find your insurance company’s customer service department ... consists of organizing medical paperwork for clients, who collect all their bills and insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 00:00:43
High points and low points in the stimulus bill
I received a press release from Representative Dave Loebsack (D, IA-02) containing a long list of provisions from the economic stimulus bill approved today. I've posted the whole thing after the jump, so click over if you want the gory details. This thread is for discussing the best and worst items that made the cut [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 03:58:48
That Was Then, This Is Now
It's no secret that there is no intellectual integrity on the Left, but it's still hard not to be a bit shocked by liberals' reaction to the budget proposal that Barack Obama unleashed yesterday. Let's take the example of the New York Times, probably the most prominent voice of the Far Left in the U.S. Throughout the George W [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 01:48:52
In $3.6 Trillion Budget, Obama Signals Broad Shift in Priorities
Bold Agenda for Social Spending, Energy and Taxes Faces Fierce Fight By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 27, 2009; A01 President Obama delivered to Congress yesterday a $3.6 trillion spending plan that would finance vast new investments in health care, [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 17:40:00
Costly Shibboleths
shibboleth: Modern usage: refers to any "in-crowd" word or phrase that can be used to distinguish members of a group from outsiders - even when not ... in his address to both chambers of Congress last night: cure cancer, reform Social Security and Medicare [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 02:59:30
Call-In Supports Long-Term Care Reform
On March 4, The Senate Special Committee on Aging will meet to discuss how improvements in long-term care can be included as part of national health ... , Medicaid and organizing long-term care services. Long-term care reform can help to improve the quality of care for nursing home residents across the country. The public is encouraged to call [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 14:42:35
Jim Welsh on Stocks, Gold, Dollar, Bonds, ETFs
E. James Welsh of Welsh Money Management, is the author of The Financial Commentator, a monthly newsletter. This is his October 21, 2008 writing: ~~~ In the July letter I wrote, “Bank balance sheets are not only burdened by loans they are unable to securitize, since global securitization is down 84%, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 11:29:23
Mexico: Up in Smoke
Mexico Troops Move in to Retake Warring Border City By Robin Emmott - Reuters CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hundreds of heavily armed soldiers fanned out across Mexico's bloodiest drug war city on Tuesday, trying to prevent a collapse in law and order just south of the U.S. border [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 08:10:00
False Axioms Produce Serious Nonsense
A long, long time ago you might have found yourself in a geometry class, and most teenagers – being teenagers – had a problem with axioms. Something didn’t seem right – to solve the problem at hand you had to list what was true to start with, something that was just a given, and build your logic on that [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 07:28:14
So I Guess Senator Grassley Doesn't Like Questions
Senator Grassley spent this week touring several counties in Iowa, holding Town Hall meetings and doing tours of various facilities. This evening he was in Mechanicsville, IA. This is a pretty small town - it's in Cedar County - eastern side of the state. In 2004 Cedar County was Bush 50% and Kerry 49%. In 2008 Obama got 54% to McCain's 44% [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 17:27:50
$250 SSDI Stimulus Checks Explained
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Social Security Disability Insurance Recipients To Get Extra $250 By Summer Allsup explains one-time $250 bonus coming ... Security Disability Insurance recipients can look forward to receiving a one-time $250 bonus payment ... Disability Insurance (SSDI) process each year. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 18:04:46
Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (012309, Morning)
….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For: Besides the raw news (”Oceans are cooling according to NASA “; HT Hot Air) about cooling, not warming, the linked story contains a useful reminder — “In the peak of the recent warming trend, 1998 actually ranked 2nd to 1934 as the warmest year on record [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 14:36:04
