Medicare Part D

Jason Linkins

The Romney Campaign's Surrogacy Fail

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Jim Talent, 2012 Speculatron, Video, 2012 Election, Campaign-Surrogates, Mitt Romney 2012, Medicare Part D, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Medicare, 2012, Politics News

Scenes from a Mitt Romney surrogate conference call, brought to you by Dave Weigel: So the Romney campaign held two surrogate conference calls toda...

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Paul Blumenthal

Auction 2012: How The Drug Industry Games Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Health Care Bill, Pay for Delay, Health Care for America Now, Auction 2012, Charles Grassley, Drug Industry, Lobbying, Medicare Part D, Olympia Snowe, Debbie Stabenow, Canada Drugs, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Video, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drugs, Max Baucus, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Byron Dorgan, Health Care, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When he first ran for president, Barack Obama...

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Medicare Open Enrollment Comes Early

Jason Alderman | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Medicare Part B, Medicare Eligibility, Medigap Insurance, Medicare Part D, Medicare Part A, Medicare Part C, Medicare Enrollment, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Business News
Jason Alderman

If you're enrolled in Medicare, mark these dates on your calendar: October 15-December 7, 2011. That's Medicare's 2012 Open Enrollment period -- and you should note that it occurs a month earlier this year than in the past.

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Those Rapacious Health Insurers Raise Premiums 9% This Year for Job-Based Health Insurance

Pearl Korn | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Insurance Premiums, McClatchy Newspapers, Unemployment, Veterans Administration, Medicare Part D, Economy, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Gop, Affordable Care Act, New York Times, Medicare, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Recession, Kaiser Family Foundation, Healthcare, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Job-based healthcare plans now cost a whopping $15,000 per year for a family, with workers picking up $4,129 of that amount, meaning that workers' share of healthcare costs has risen a stunning 131% in 10 years.

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Democrats' Part D Opportunity

Doug Schoen | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Health Care, Medicare Part D, Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, Prescription Drug Benefit, Politics News
Doug Schoen

The way Democrats deal with Bush's Medicare prescription drug benefit will determine whether they can retain their credibility as the Party of Medicare or surrender the program's future to its historical antagonists in the Republican Party.

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Suggestions for Obama's Medicare Counterproposal

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.12.2011

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Chris Weigant

It's going to be very easy for whatever Obama comes up with to look a lot better than just handing seniors a voucher and saying: "Good luck with that medical insurance marketplace."

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The Saccharine Republican Ire

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Michelle Bachmann, Tea Party, Louie Gohmert, Medicare Part D, Big Coal, Wto, Big Pharma, Dodd-Frank, Republican Party, Nafta, Glass-Steagall, Republicans, Bush Tax Cuts, Newt Gingrich, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Republican ire and calls to "take the country back" are confusing because for quite some time now the Right has set the agenda and has defined the parameters of what is politically possible in this country.

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Mark Blumenthal

Opinions Of Health Reform Law Unchanged One Year Later

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Pollster Analysis, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Obama Health Care, Brendan Nyhan, Medicare Part D, Robert Blendon, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new survey released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that "little has changed on the public opinion front" regarding he...

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The True Weight of Healthcare Costs

Michael Bendetson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Osama Bin-Laden, Michelle Obama, Ronald Reagan, Medicare Part D, Bush Administration, Let's Move, Mitt Romney, Medicaid, Republican Party, Obamacare, Barack Obama, Obesity, Politics News
Michael Bendetson

The average state spends $2.27 billion annually in obesity-related expenses from skyrocketing Medicare and Medicaid costs. One can only expect these costs to rapidly increase.

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Hey, Republicans - it's not nice to scare Grandma for no good reason

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage, Preventive Care, Doughnut Hole, Doughnut-Hole, Wellness, Preexisting Condition, Preexisting Conditions, High-Risk-Pools, High Risk Pools, Business News
Mark Miller

I'm trying to remember when it was that Republicans became such big champions of Medicare. Certainly not in 1965, when the GOP joined the American Medical Association in fighting enactment of the program.

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Misunderstandings Are Rampant on Health Care Reform and Medicare

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare Part D, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Medicare-Doughnut-Hole, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Seniors, Smarter Ideas, Business News
Mark Miller

The Affordable Care Act contains a number of important improvements in Medicare coverage, but fact-free media coverage and political spin have stoked fear among seniors.

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Senator Seeks Deadline For Medicare To Prevent Prescription Drug Fraud

Center For Public Integrity | Joe Eaton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Tom Carper Drug Fraud, Medicare Part D, Prescription Drugs, Tom Carper Medicare, Prescription Drug Fraud, Senator Tom Carper, Medicare Fraud, Tom Carper, Politics News

Taxpayer-funded Medicare recently spent more than $1 billion on drug prescriptions missing a valid doctor identification number and a Senate Democrat ...

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How Democrats Should Respond to Jon Kyl

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

If you want to be serious about being fiscally responsible then you can't have some sort of double standard where you hold the line on new spending but ignore the fact that tax cuts add to the deficit.

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How We Got Into this Mess: The Legacy of George W. Bush's Fuzzy Math

Rep. Maurice Hinchey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare Prescription Drug, Deficit, Cbo, Iraq, Federal Budget Deficit, George Bush Legacy, Medicare Part D, Bush Tax Cuts, Federal Budget, Politics News
Rep. Maurice Hinchey

The American people deserve a full accounting of the Bush administration's disastrous economic policies that got us into this mess so that we can understand what not to do going forward.

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Investigate Medicare Before You Need It

Jason Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare Part B, Medicare Eligibility, Medigap Insurance, Medicare Part D, Medicare Part A, Medicare Part C, Medicare Enrollment, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Politics News
Jason Alderman

If you're approaching 65, here are some Medicare basics you might want to become familiar with now, rather than waiting until the last minute.

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Yes, the Bill is Imperfect. Pass it Now.

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, Medicare Part D, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicaid, Colbert Report, Physicians for a National Health Program, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

Whenever you debate a medical treatment or procedure, you have to weigh the benefits versus the harms. If the benefits outweigh the harms, it's probably a good idea. And such is the case with this bill.

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Feds' Decision to Boot Medicare Drug Plan, A Good Start

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicaid, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, CBS MoneyWatch.Com, Medicare Part D, Healthcare, Business News
Mark Miller

The Federal government ejected a big insurance company from the Medicare prescription drug program today--an unprecedented move and a shot in the arm for health care reform advocates.

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Gray Matters: A Reach Too Far -- Who is Alan Simpson?

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare for All, Aarp Health Insurance Reform, Aarp, Medicare, Alan Simpson, Medicare Part D, Politics News
Saul Friedman

The Republican Obama picked to co-chair the so-called deficit reduction commission, former Sen. Alan Simpson, has been a harsh critic of Social Security and Medicare.

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The Biggest Challenge Facing Obama's Commission on Debt and Deficits? Republicans and Democrats.

David Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Parties, Bill Clinton, Reaganomics, Wall Street, Ronald Reagan, Financial Reform, Medicare Part D, Supply Side Economics, Campaign Finance, Wayne Berman, Cpac, Alan Simpson, Philip Morris, Peter Terpeluk, Deficits, Debt Commission, Business News
David Paul

Listening to Alan Simpson talk about the work to come of the commission on national deficits and debt, I thought perhaps there is a glimmer of hope that the problem of debt and entitlements might be honestly and openly discussed.

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Is Medicare Part D A Bait And Switch?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Congress, Medicare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Medicare Part D, Pharma, Prescription Drug Plan, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Francine Hardaway

In this deal, Medicare Part D (prescription drug benefit) was passed with a right of the pharmaceutical companies to raise drug prices during the open enrollment period.

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More Seniors Eligible for Big Medicare Drug Subsidy

Mark Miller | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicare Part D, Seniors, Healthy Living News
Mark Miller

The Extra Help Program - administered by the Social Security Administration - subsidizes Medicare Part D prescription drug premiums for eligible seniors. While the program isn't new, eligibility rules have changed in a way that expands availability dramatically.

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Ryan Grim

Outline Of Senate Health Bill Agreement Emerging

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: #Hcr, Trigger, Cbo, Medicare Part D, Public Option, Senate Bill, Medicare Buy-In, Harry Reid, Cbo Score, Maria Cantwell, Health Care Reform, Senate Health Bill, Ben Nelson, Jeff Merkley, Medicare, Office of Personnel Management, Health Care, Politics News

Senate Democrats emerged from a caucus-wide meeting Wednesday evening tight-lipped about the elements of the "broad agreement" that has been reached o...

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Medicare Part D Creators Now Working For Lobbyists With Billions At Stake

ProPublica | Olga Pierce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Means Ways Committee, Gop, White House, Breaux, Lobbyists, Don Nickles, Obama, Tarplin Downs Young, Tarplin, John Breaux, House Ways and Means Committee, Baucus, Billy Tauzin, Raissa Downs, Breaux Lott Leadership, Downs & Young, Part D, Michelle Easton, John McManus, Lobbying, Medicare Part D, Phrma, Reform, Democrats, Insurance Industry, Drug Industry, Health Care Industry, Max Baucus, Medicare, Health Care Reform, Thomas Scully, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollar...

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Baucus Bill Hearings Day 1: Heroes--Cantwell, Kerry, Nelson, Wyden. Grumpy Old Men--Republicans. Goat--Tom Carper.

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ron Wyden, Healthcare Reform, Medicare Part D, John Kerry, Maria Cantwell, Home Healthcare, Medicaid, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Schumer, Seniors, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Overall, it was a good opening day. One could measure how good it was by the sour faces and wounded-appearing body language of the Republicans.

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The Republican "Do Not Resuscitate" Plan to Let Medicare Die

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Social Security, Death Panels, Medicare Part D, President Barack Obama, Congress, Medicaid, Democrats, Organizing for America, Senior Citizens, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Medicare, Socialist, Republicans, Health Care, President George W. Bush, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

This is philosophical warfare, and for the Republicans, Medicare is an appropriate casualty.

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