Senate Fails to Act on Medicare Reform
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Senate Fails to Act on Medicare Reform
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Most Recently Shared on October 22, 2009 at 4:32 pm By:
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Senate drops medical imaging cuts as trade deal pay-for - The Hill's Healthwatch
thehill.com — “The Senate Finance Committee has dropped cuts to Medicare payments for medical imaging as a pay-for for trade legislation. Instead, the revised chairman's mark calls would divert penalties from physicians who fail to adopt electronic healthcare records by 2015, as called for under the 2009 HITECH Act.” View full resource at thehill.com
Most Recently Shared on June 30, 2011 at 9:11 pm By:
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Senate drops medical imaging cuts as trade deal pay-for http://bit.ly/m95Ya7 - #imaging
Medicare Part D, Not Medicaid Rebates, Is the Model for Reform - Merrill Matthews - Right Directions - Forbes
blogs.forbes.com — “Even as states around the country protest that they are financially drowning under Medicaid, President Obama wants to take part of the failed Medicaid model and impose it on Medicare. The president outlined a new budget in April—the Democratically controlled Senate just voted down his February budget proposal 97 to zip—which [...]” View full resource at blogs.forbes.com
Most Recently Shared on June 9, 2011 at 9:36 pm By:
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Medicare Part D, Not Medicaid Rebates, Is the Model for Reform: Medicare Part D has generally succeeded... http://onforb.es/lGQpRe #drug
Medicare Part D, Not Medicaid Rebates, Is the Model for Reform - Merrill Matthews - Right Directions - Forbes
blogs.forbes.com — “Even as states around the country protest that they are financially drowning under Medicaid, President Obama wants to take part of the failed Medicaid model and impose it on Medicare. The president outlined a new budget in April—the Democratically controlled Senate just voted down his February budget proposal 97 to zip—which [...]” View full resource at blogs.forbes.com
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Medicare Part D, Not Medicaid Rebates, Is the Model for Reform: Medicare Part D has generally succeeded at pr... http://onforb.es/mQqHpM
MHA Federalist: Vote on deficit commission proposal falls short
mhanewsnow.typepad.com — “The revised proposal by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on Dec. 3 failed to receive the support needed to send it to Congress for consideration, garnering only 11 of the necessary 14 votes. In their proposal, the co-chairs called for extending the authority of the Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to all hospitals and cutting Medicare bad debt payments as well as spending on graduate and indir” View full resource at mhanewsnow.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on December 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm By:
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Vote on deficit commission proposal falls short http://bit.ly/f7aK0s
Today's OpEds: Wyden on bipartisanship health reform; How to spend prevention funds; CLASS Act
news-medical.net — “I still think I had a pretty good idea for health reform " despite its rejection by significant Democratic and Republican leaders " but so did Bob Bennett. I was on the Senate floor three years ago when Bob walked across the center aisle to tell me he was willing to work with me on health reform (Sen. Ron Wyden, 5/21).” View full resource at news-medical.net
Most Recently Shared on May 21, 2010 at 9:01 pm By:
Medicare News: Today's OpEds: Wyden on bipartisanship health reform; How to spend prevention funds; CLASS Act: I s... http://bit.ly/ceRFZV
AARP Asks Senate To Finish The Job On Health Reform, USA
medicalnewstoday.com — “AARP CEO A. Barry Rand today sent a letter to every member of the U.S. Senate. In his letter, Rand urged senators to promptly pass the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of” View full resource at medicalnewstoday.com
Most Recently Shared on March 25, 2010 at 6:10 pm By:
AARP Asks Senate To Finish The Job On Health Reform, USA http://mnt.to/3zrB #seniors
CCH issues Special Tax Briefing to explain final tax provisions of health care reform legislation
news-medical.net — “CCH has issued a Special Tax Briefing to explain the final tax provisions of health care reform legislation. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and a companion Health Care and Education Tax Credits Reconciliation Act in the House, the stage is set for Senate concurrence through a simple majority vote and signing by the president to wind up the long legislative path to health care reform.” View full resource at news-medical.net
Most Recently Shared on March 22, 2010 at 5:01 pm By:
Medicare News: CCH issues Special Tax Briefing to explain final tax provisions of health care reform legislation: ... http://bit.ly/d60JPl
CongressWeb - Issues
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Most Recently Shared on February 26, 2010 at 9:05 pm By:
Senate fails to act on 30-day extension to Medicare physician payment cuts - contact Congress now http://tinyurl.com/yghfcuz
Op-Ed Contributor - Why I’m Leaving the Senate - NYTimes.com
nytimes.com — “Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.” View full resource at nytimes.com
Most Recently Shared on February 21, 2010 at 11:12 am By:
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Why I’m Leaving the Senate - http://nyti.ms/dirXUn - absolute must read!
MHA Federalist: Senate Bill Could Insure More People Than Earlier Estimates, Says CMS
mhanewsnow.typepad.com — “Senate Democrats received some good news/bad news from two new studies issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" passed by the Senate on Dec. 24. First, a Jan. 8 memo from CMS Chief Actuary Richard Foster finds that an additional 34 million people would be covered by 2019 from proposed reforms in the Senate healthcare reform bill"up from the 31 million projected last month by the Congressional Budget Office. This increa” View full resource at mhanewsnow.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on January 11, 2010 at 2:56 pm By:
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Senate Bill Could Insure More People Than Earlier Estimates, Says CMS http://bit.ly/59vfsY
Senate Democrats trying to push health reform bill ahead
news-medical.net — “The Associated Press: "History may be calling but time's running out to act by Christmas, so Senate Democrats are coming to terms with the idea they won't get everything they want from health care overhaul. ... The public plan liberals hoped for appeared dead in the Senate, as did a Medicare buy-in scheme offered as a fallback."” View full resource at news-medical.net
Most Recently Shared on December 16, 2009 at 11:24 pm By:
Medicare News: Senate Democrats trying to push health reform bill ahead: The Associated Press: "History may be call... http://bit.ly/5tNHsF
Week 1 of the Senate Debate " Amending the Reform Bill | Health Care Reform Center
healthcarereform.nejm.org — “John K. Iglehart The Democrats' ambitious health care reform measure escaped its first week of Senate debate unscathed, with the defeat of Republican amendments that would have eliminated Medicare spending cuts and killed a new program for long-term care championed by the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). The only amendment that ...” View full resource at healthcarereform.nejm.org
Most Recently Shared on December 10, 2009 at 1:47 pm By:
NEJM's Iglehart: Ted Kennedy's CLASS act for a long-term care plan made it through one Senate vote, but will it stick? http://bit.ly/8oG8nl
RAC Ready: Senate health reform bill expands RAC program to Medicaid, Medicare Parts C and D
mhanewsnow.typepad.com — “Hold on to your stethoscopes; the Senate Healthcare Reform Bill is expanding the RAC program. Specifically, Section 6411 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R.3590,p. 1777"1783) broadens the current RAC program to cover Medicare Part C and D as well as the Medicaid program"and all by December 31, 2010. Read more here.” View full resource at mhanewsnow.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on November 30, 2009 at 4:47 pm By:
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Senate health reform bill expands RAC program to Medicaid, Medicare Parts C and D http://bit.ly/8pof9G
AARP hosts educational forum to address nation's health care system
news-medical.net — “With the U.S. House of Representatives passing the landmark Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), and the Senate moving key health reform legislation forward, Congress has taken decisive steps to fix our nation's broken health care system.” View full resource at news-medical.net
Most Recently Shared on November 23, 2009 at 9:42 am By:
Medicare News: AARP hosts educational forum to address nation's health care system: With the U.S... http://digg.com/u1GuaC
New health-reform bill violates Americans' health-insurance choices and privacy, says IHF
news-medical.net — “The Senate's newly released health-reform bill ("Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act") infringes on Americans' health-insurance choices and medical privacy, says Sue Blevins, president of the Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) -- a patients' rights group in Washington, D.C.” View full resource at news-medical.net
Most Recently Shared on November 21, 2009 at 9:29 am By:
Medicare News: New health-reform bill violates Americans' health-insurance choices and privacy, s.. http://digg.com/u1Gnau
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