Obama Health Care Budget
Well, details of the Obama “down payment on health care reform are filtering out. They include ... —as is done for Medicare Part B now. • Cutting Medicare HMO payments by $175 billion over ten ... . Some of it may be indirect, as HMOs tighten financial screws on doctors to compensate for Medicare HMO losses [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 14:17:00
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Mr. President, Aren’t You Just Kicking the Can Down the Road?
Pieces of the health care portion of the Obama budget are leaking out ... for Medicare Part B now.Cutting Medicare HMO payments by $175 billion over ten years.Reducing Medicare hospital ... reduction is the cut to Medicare HMO payments. This one is hardly a risky political move as everyone [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 02:55:00
Health Care Reform -- Essential Reading
When I come across links as rich in content as these I get frustrated that traffic to this blog is so low. It's my own fault ... of Medicare also qualify for Social Security benefits at the same time and Medicare is joined at the hip with Social Security. Medicare Parts B monthly premiums are charged to the beneficiary by a withdrawal [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 01:03:00
Fraud not the only problem in Medicaid overpayments
New York State needs to shape up its Medicaid claims system, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said ... to providers that incorrectly billed Medicaid for Medicare Part B services. In many cases, the providers ... to inadequate oversight and other problems, the comptroller found in an audit. Medicaid, which provides [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 00:31:55
Fraud not the only problem in Medicaid overpayments
New York State needs to shape up its Medicaid claims system, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said ... to providers that incorrectly billed Medicaid for Medicare Part B services. In many cases, the providers ... to inadequate oversight and other problems, the comptroller found in an audit. Medicaid, which provides [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 00:34:39
Update 01 January 2009
Update 01 January 2009 This bulletin contains the following articles: == Tricare Self Assessment --------------------------- (C+ or B-) ... Opportunity) == Mobilized Reserve 23 DEC 08 ------------ (1422 Decrease) == Medicare Part D 31 ------------------- (Oral Cancer Drugs) == Medicare Enrollment 01 ----------- (SSDI Waiting Period) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 19:37:22
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
Medicare Enrollment Starts November 15, 2008
It’s that time, once again, to make changes to Medicare options ... have an employer-sponsored supplement or a Medigap policy to go along with Part A and Part B. The fourth ... pays a private insurance company to take over and administer someone’s Medicare benefits [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 19:18:45
The Medicare Claims Process And You
by Don Bethune Currently 43 million Americans have Medicare and that number is growing drastically because of aging baby boomers. Medicare is the largest purchaser of managed health care in the country and it is imperative ... in 1965. It consists of coverage in two parts. There is aPart A-Hospitala and there is aPart B-Medicala [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 14:47:33
Basic Information On How Hospice Works
by Melanie Brooks person has been diagnosed with a terminal illness that would end in a persons death within six months time ... of hospice are; bathing and dressing, care of a nurse, medicine being given, any supplies the patient needs ... benefits, but the rooming is usually an out of pocket expense. Medicare patients are covered completely [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 20:51:53
Information About How Hospice Works
by Melanie Brooks person has been diagnosed with a terminal illness that would end in a persons death within six months time ... of hospice are; bathing and dressing, care of a nurse, medicine being given, any supplies the patient needs ... benefits, but the rooming is usually an out of pocket expense. Medicare patients are covered completely [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 21:06:24
Health care summit
President Obama opens the White House Forum on Health Reform today: “The same soaring costs that are straining families’ budgets are sinking our businesses and eating up our government’s budget, too. Too many small businesses can’t insure their employees. Major American corporations are struggling to compete with their foreign counterparts [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 20:39:03
New Yorker Stories That Haunt My Dreams
Emily Gordon momentarily surfaces to write: The briefest list, representing a much longer longer one spanning roughly 1981 to the present ... to death because of the bureaucracy of Medicare, or something like that. How is she doing, if she's still ... . Not to mention Florence, Crystal, and Daquan, part of whose stories Susan Sheehan told in the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 20:18:47
Should Nurses Be Performing Endoscopy?
You may be surprised at the answer , but I'm not. This randomized trial definitively answers the question of whether nurses can deliver ... the pot of Medicare money through the irrational RVU system , procedures will be priced at irrational premiums to the true value in health care, thinking. I value my specialists for their ability [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 12:00:00
How is Congress spending its time — and our money? (Part 4)
Congress is busy wasting your money. Yesterday, a whopping 79 new bills were introduced. Again we have more pleas to allow special exceptions in immigratory status for aliens living in the United States. Then there are a large number of bills which are simply tinkering with unconstitutional laws already on the books [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 20:23:31
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
How to Win Docs and Influence Patients
By Val Jones MD Pretty much everyone agrees that we need to improve the quality of healthcare delivered to patients ... rules, regulations, and penalties to inspire change (for example, decreasing Medicare payments ... in practice patterns. In fact, at the recent Medicare Policy Summit, CBO staff identified this problem [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 14:48:36
GOP Still Imploding As Limbaugh Attacks Lesser Conservatives
You don’t have to be foaming at the mouth mad to be a solid conservative willing to fight. I fight the knuckleheads left and right every day. I am sick with overly simplistic rhetoric supported by fear mongering and demagoguery. For some reason conservatives have decided vapid emotion is better than rallying strategy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 22:14:37
The Obama Economy
After an early boost, it’s another down day on Wall Street. The markets are reacting to the bad jobs numbers ( unemployment is now at 8.1%) plus the news that GM is facing bankruptcy . This is personally disappointing to me as I was looking at buying a new GM car this summer. The way things are going, perhaps I should hold off and buy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 19:39:17
Obama: “Don’t say I didn’t warn you!”
The war to divide Americans continues , with explicitly and purposely combative language from the no-longer-conciliatory Obama ... . Now we know that when he said “change,” he really meant it: … Obama will fight to change health care, energy ... for the powerful and well-connected interests that have run Washington for far too long,” Obama said [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 20:14:15
Baby Courts? Michigan Should Consider Shaping Its' Own Policies
Here we go again with the State of Michigan taking on as much federal money and any federally directed mandate it can find ... on the roll of Michigan government, because the only laws that Michigan passes are 1. License/Regulation Fee ... IV-D Grant Money ), additional food stamp, medicare, and cash benefit participation counts [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 22:06:02
Administration to David Brooks: We're committed to cutting SS, Medicare
More evidence that what we fear is true - columnist David Brooks wrote last week about his fears of all this government spending with the stimulus package, the budget, and the omnibus spending bill, along with bailouts galore. But here's the scary part: Brooks' column today describes the response [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 23:56:42
Barack Obama, Deficit-Cutter?
Jon Chait takes exception to my suggestion that the Obama budget lays out a kind of starve-the-beast in reverse: In the most important sense, ... -hypothetical health care reform that Obama wants as the domestic-policy centerpiece of his administration ... -increasing initiatives -- the tax cuts, the war in Iraq, the Medicare benefit -- came without any [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 15:46:17
More on the Education Factory
March 6, 2009 Unfunded mandates in education are open-ended commitments made by government on behalf of certain populations of students. The problem is tax revenues are not open-ended. As government slips into insolvency, we have to accept that all programs, however needed and morally justified, must have spending limits [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 23:01:11
IF ONLY HE WERE "SOCIALIST":
It Can't Happen Here : Why Obama won't bring European social democracy to America. (Jacob Weisberg, March 7, 2009, Slate) The familiar downside to the trans-Atlantic model is less economic flexibility and social dynamism. Western European countries have higher taxes, lower growth rates, more unemployment, and less class mobility [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 12:56:14
Obama’s Dishonesty On Earmarks 2
I received some interesting comments, one of them distinctly unfriendly, ... regulation affecting only three long-term care hospitals in the country. There’s also language requiring ... a link to). Please provide a quote where Obama campaigned on eliminating earmarks. You are quite [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 05:48:39
How Much Worse Is Obama’s Budget Than A Hypothetical President McCain’s?
Let me be the first to state that I have long considered the national debt to be one of the nation’s most pressing issues. There is very strong evidence that long term growth rates are affected more by national debt ... not going to change without immense political reassessment. On top of that they passed the Medicare drug [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 01:14:34
Going Galt - Present and Past
by cactus Going Galt - Present and Past There seems to be some chatter among right wing blogs about "going Galt" - i.e., ceasing to do paying work, shuttering one's business, etc. - given Obama's plan to let Bush tax cuts on those with the highest levels of income expire. (This new movement is covered beautifully by TBogg here and here [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 10:00:00
LET'S ALL FREAK OUT ABOUT THE BUDGET.
The president's budget is an ambitious document, essentially a picture of what a truly liberal agenda would look like and how it would work ... the money as a down payment on health care reform. That’s what the budget does. It’s not the Russian ... . It's bold in a liberal sense because it puts emphasis on programs like health care reform, fixing [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 16:03:23
Health Responsibility
President Obama convened a group of concerned Congressmen, healthcare professionals, insurances companies, and drug merchants yesterday to kick off his hopes of totally revising the current American health ... is an assumed “given” by most Americans. Most employers provide healthcare insurance coverage as part [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 15:35:52
Obama’s Radicalism Is Killing The Dow
Didn’t a previous saviour cause wine and fishes to miraculously multiply, not miraculously decrease? ... and the growing fear on Main Street as a product, at least in part, of the realization that our new president’ ... addressing the impending explosion in Social Security and Medicare costs. To be fair, specific parts [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 15:39:50
“Uniquely American” is Code for Killing Healthcare Reform
Just like “All American” type gal-Friday or receptionist was code for discrimination in employment advertisements a few decades ago, so is “Uniquely American” code for preventing a Medicare for all government option for individual health insurance. Opposition politicians have uniformly adopted the need for a uniquely American [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 16:05:00
Health Care Friday
NEJM : In a roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Thomas Lee, three experts in health policy, economics, and health care delivery — Drs ... from the advocacy group Families USA showed that the lack of access to health insurance in the United ... : A third of Americans under age 65 -- 86.7 million people -- went without health insurance [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 14:00:05
Demand Single-Payer on March 5, 10, 11th
If you want everyone in the United States to have health coverage simply paid for by the government for less money than we spend now, ... is holding a Healthcare Summit on Thursday, March 5th. Over 120 are expected to be in attendance ... payer would usher improved health and affordable health care to all Americans. Single payer [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 04:34:07
Just Between You and I
File this one under, "Are You Kidding Me With This?" I didn't see this one coming, but apparently grammarians have pounced on Obama already, just one month into his presidency. WHEN President Obama speaks before Congress and the nation tonight, he will be facing some of his toughest critics. Grammar junkies [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 05:41:43
The Cry For Health Care Reform
These united States in Extreme Distress Almost every week we here the Obama administration’s mantra for Health Care Reform. Trouble is they are misleading every single American Citizen on this continent. People assume this will mean 1) Cheaper costs for seeing a Doctor; 2) Better and more reliable Health Care [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 15:14:51
Report: Hatch Foundation Took Big Donations From Drug Cos As He Voted For Their Legislation
Keep a very close eye on this morning's exclusive report by the conservative Washington Times on the big donations from the largest pharmaceutical ... the massive Medicare Part D legislation and debate. Here's a summary of the story: A charity founded ... voted on a bill relating to Medicare Part D. Hatch voted against a bill requiring that the [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 14:50:46
Dems Oppose Obama Tax Plan
I was wondering hoiw they would justify opposing the tax thing on the wealthiest people…and now I have my answer…at least in part ... to make a down payment on health care reform and to limit future budget deficits . But, he said ... for setting aside $634 billion over the next 10 years as a down payment on health care reform. Half the money [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 07:07:11
The Daily Watchdog: March 5, 2009
The Daily Watchdog: March 5, 2009 By Peter Newbatt Smith A roundup of government-issued investigative reports from March 3-4, 2009 ... of the Part D Coverage Gap on Medicare Beneficiaries Without Financial Assistance in 2006” (Health ... of Federal Immigration Laws” (Government Accountability Office). A federal statute authorizes state [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:34:57
The Intentional Obama Recession Has Arrived
Many have argued that poor President Obama inherited this economic mess from President Bush which is why the market is still dropping faster than Obama’s approval rating. However, one has to examine what has happened since September of 2008 to realize that we were already on the socialist course [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 16:04:51
Internal Battles on the Right
I've forgotten the exact essay by now, but sometime back I wrote that I wasn't going to battle against fellow conservatives. As an early McCain supporter last year, I'm still seeing sore wounds from some of my fellow partisans who were zinged repeatedly in my posts ( [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 16:26:00
On the Radar: Healing Health Care
Cate Vojdik AC360° Writer President Obama sent a strong message this week at his White House health care summit, saying his goal is to enact comprehensive health care reform by the end of this year. He said ... . Starting on Monday, Sanjay will begin five days of health care reports for us. He’s spent the last three [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 00:35:34
Where Was the Republican Outrage Before Obama Was Elected?
First of all, I’d like to welcome all of the new Michelle Malkin and Instapundit readers to the site ... Act? Why weren’t y’all as upset about the cost of Medicare Part D as you are about Obama’s socialistic health care schemes? Please don’t respond that “at least Bush gave us tax cuts.” [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 04:19:35
The Early Word: Obama’s Health Care Push
On a snowy Monday in the nation’s capital, President Obama is preparing this afternoon to officially introduce Kansas Gov ... will announce the broad outlines of his plan for universal health care coverage, and The Times’s Robert ... to health care even though the government can barely afford the health insurance programs [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 14:57:58
Marking Price Competiton Work
By ROGER COLLIER Part 1 of this two-part piece asked why Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” seems to be affected by a palsy that causes health care ... , provider due process, freedom of choice, and point of service laws were often appropriate responses [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 14:49:30
Czar Obama killing the Stock Market to fuel panic so he can force America into Socialism!
Obama’s Radicalism Is Killing The Dow By Michael J. Boskin March 6th, 2009 The Wall Street Journal It’s hard not to see the continued sell-off on Wall Street and the growing fear on Main Street as a product, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 10:50:16
Santa Claus is Chinese
I know, I know. It's not December. This is an old article published in December of 2006. But, if you read it, you will see that the author, Lester R. Brown, president and founder of Earth Policy Institute, of “Santa Claus is Chinese, or Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining," [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 12:12:00
Deja vu again
No time for blogging today, so here is a great post by Steve Benen at Political Animal : IT'S LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN.... I'd mentioned earlier that Ronald Reagan raised taxes, repeatedly, as part of his economic agenda. Bruce Bartlett recently took a closer look at those policies, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 23:00:00
Put simply, the “Obama’s turning the U.S. socialist!” crowd is full of crap
If there are two things you can guarantee about Barack Obama’s economic plans, ... deplores. It consists largely (but not exclusively) of returning marginal tax rates to their levels ... their hands on the reins of power. Obama wants to let marginal rates for families with taxable income [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 13:40:35
Presidential Cold Cuts
Look who's talking now ... ), 5 involve some form of rationing health care. The biggest savings ($37 billion) comes at the expense ... and corporations ship jobs overseas". Health care consumes roughly 16% of GDP. Unless you can harness [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 13:25:00
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