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fool.com August 19, 2018
How to Prepare for Costs Medicare Won't Cover

When you think about how you'll spend your retirement savings, you probably imagine traveling the world, getting more involved in your hobbies, or spoiling your grandchildren. What you probably don't envision is spending every spare dime on healthcare expenses.
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forbes.com August 15, 2018
Medicare Enrollment Periods And Deadlines: When Should You Sign Up?

Justin Adsit is Senior Vice President at TRANZACT, which owns and operates several consumer websites including MedicareAdvantage.com. Timing is everything, and that’s especially true when it comes to enrolling in Medicare.
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propublica.org August 17, 2018
St. Luke’s Heart Transplant Program to Lose Medicare Funding Today

This article was produced in collaboration with the Houston Chronicle. The heart transplant program at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is set to lose federal funding today, a serious blow to a Houston hospital long regarded as one of the nation’s best for cardiac surgery.
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jacobinmag.com August 17, 2018
Sorry, Bernie Is Right

Mainstream fact-checkers are still trying to discredit Bernie Sanders's Medicare-for-All plan. But there's no way around it: single-payer is entirely realistic. Two weeks ago, the libertarian Mercatus Center released a report estimating the cost of Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All proposal.
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theweek.com August 16, 2018
The medical lobby is already peddling lies about Medicare-for-all

Medicare-for-all is getting some real momentum behind it, with several more supporters winning congressional primaries on Tuesday night.
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nytimes.com August 13, 2018
The Large Hidden Costs of Medicare’s Prescription Drug Program

Premiums have risen very little in the years since Medicare Part D was introduced. But the same cannot be said of the burden on taxpayers.
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techcrunch.com August 15, 2018
Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health

Google parent Alphabet has invested $375 million in next-gen health insurance company, Oscar Health. Google has been a longtime supporter of the six-year-old New York company, having previously invested in Oscar through its Capital G investment wing and Verily health and life sciences research wing.
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businessinsider.com August 14, 2018
Oscar Health just raised $375 million from Alphabet

Oscar Health just got a cool $375 million from Google's parent company to bring its tech-backed health insurance plans to more people. In total, the company has now raised more than $1 billion. Its last-reported valuation was $3.2 billion.
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whitecoatinvestor.com August 17, 2018
In Defense of Earned Income

There are many blog posts, books, and podcasts out in the world celebrating “passive” income. I’ve even got a partner blog in the WCI Network completely dedicated to passive income. It’s time somebody stood up for the other side — active or earned income.
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consumerreports.org October 16, 2014
Starting Medicare: What you need to know after 65

Look down this list to see if any of these situations apply to you. It will tell you what you should do about signing up for Part B. You receive financial help to buy an individual health plan through your state's Health Insurance Marketplace.
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nytimes.com May 15, 2017
A Whistle-Blower Tells of Health Insurers Bilking Medicare

When Medicare was facing an impossible $13 trillion funding gap, Congress opted for a bold fix: It handed over part of the program to insurance companies, expecting them to provide better care at a lower cost. The new program was named Medicare Advantage.
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adequateman.deadspin.com March 14, 2017
What Will Trumpcare Mean For My Disabled Brother?

My older brother Sean has cerebral palsy. He also listens to bebop and enjoys teaching our nephew Oliver about the virtues of counting from one to ten in the voice of The Count and was angered when the Bruins fired Claude Julien.
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washingtonmonthly.com July 5, 2013
Special Deal

On the last week of April earlier this year, a small committee of doctors met quietly in a midsized ballroom at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago.
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elderlawanswers.com December 14, 2016
Turning 65? What You Need to Know about Signing up for Medicare

The first of the 78 million baby boomers turned 65 on January 1, 2011, and some 10,000 boomers a day will reportedly reach that milestone between now and 2030. If you are about to turn 65, then it is time to think about Medicare.
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nytimes.com September 1, 2017
Under ‘Observation,’ Some Hospital Patients Face Big Bills

In April, Nancy Niemi entered Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C., with cardiac problems. She stayed four nights, at one point receiving a coronary stent. Then she went home, but felt faint and took several falls. Five days later, her primary care doctor sent her back to the hospital.
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nytimes.com July 7, 2017
Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money

Lingering uncertainty about the fate of the Affordable Care Act has spurred the California legislature to consider adoption of a statewide single-payer health care system.
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fool.com March 19, 2017
5 Facts About Medicare Every Retiree Should Know

Medicare doesn't have to be complicated. Sure, there are many aspects to the federal healthcare program. The good news is that retirees don't have to master every single one of them. You do need to understand the basics of Medicare, however.
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nytimes.com August 6, 2016
New Medicare Law to Notify Patients of Loophole in Nursing Home Coverage

WASHINGTON — In November, after a bad fall, 85-year-old Elizabeth Cannon was taken to a hospital outside Philadelphia for six and a half days of “observation,” followed by nearly five months at a nearby nursing home for rehabilitation and skilled nursing care. The cost: more than $40,000.
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theatlantic.com April 13, 2018
Are You Sure You Want Single Payer?

French women supposedly don’t get fat, and in the minds of many Americans, they also don’t get stuck with très gros medical bills. There’s long been a dream among some American progressives to truly live as the “Europeans1” do and have single-payer health care.
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nytimes.com August 7, 2017
What’s Next for Progressives?

For now, at least, the attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears dead.
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theatlantic.com June 27, 2017
The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

It was a cold March night when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. turned his pulpit towards health care.
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nytimes.com June 30, 2017
Plan on Growing Old? Then the Medicaid Debate Affects You

These are the stories we tell ourselves: I will never be poor. I will never be disabled. My child will develop normally. They stand a decent chance of being true, even. There is one tall tale, however, that ought to inspire a great deal of skepticism: I will be able to pay for myself in my old age.
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npr.org November 17, 2016
A Growing Group Of Doctors Are Big-Money Prescribers In Medicare

The number of doctors who each prescribe millions of dollars of medications annually in Medicare's drug program has soared, driven by expensive hepatitis C treatments and rising drug prices overall, federal data obtained by ProPublica show.
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nytimes.com September 5, 2017
The Real Reason the U.S. Has Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

The basic structure of the American health care system, in which most people have private insurance through their jobs, might seem historically inevitable, consistent with the capitalistic, individualist ethos of the nation. In truth, it was hardly preordained.
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nytimes.com September 12, 2016
Failure to Improve Is Still Being Used, Wrongly, to Deny Medicare Coverage

Edwina Kirby was having a hard time. She had tripped over a rug in her home in Livonia, Mich., and the fall broke a femur. After she had surgery and rehabilitation, an infection sent her back into the hospital.
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foxbusiness.com February 12, 2017
3 Medicare Rules You Should Know by Heart

Medicare is big business. There are more than 57 millionAmericans enrolled in it, with more added to the program each month. Its net outlays are about $600 billionannually.If you're not covered by Medicare yet, you will probably be relying on it the future, so it's worth learning more about it.
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nytimes.com November 18, 2016
The Medicare Killers

During the campaign, Donald Trump often promised to be a different kind of Republican, one who would represent the interests of working-class voters who depend on major government programs.
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npr.org September 22, 2017
Advocates Say Seniors With Obamacare Need More Time To Switch To Medicare

Many older Americans who have Affordable Care Act insurance policies are going to miss a Sept. 30 deadline to enroll in Medicare, and they need more time to make the change, advocates say.
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nytimes.com March 19, 2018
Medicare Doesn’t Equal Dental Care. That Can Be a Big Problem.

Oral health cannot properly be considered apart from the health of the rest of the body. Many people view Medicare as the gold standard of United States health coverage, and any attempt to cut it incurs the wrath of older Americans, a politically powerful group.
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npr.org November 10, 2017
Paul Ryan's Plan to Change Medicare Looks A Lot Like Obamacare

President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan agree that repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with some other health insurance system is a top priority. But they disagree on whether overhauling Medicare should be part of that plan.
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consumerreports.org
How to find the best Medicare drug plan

If you do not have a Medicare Advantage plan that includes Part D drug coverage, you must sign up for it separately. You should sign up for Medicare Part D at the same time that you enroll in Part B.
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nytimes.com July 21, 2017
The Ethics of Adjusting Your Assets to Qualify for Medicaid

At any given moment, there is a large group of citizens who want nothing more than to make absolutely certain that they are impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid sooner rather than later. Someday, you might be one of them.
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money.cnn.com January 11, 2018
Trump administration unveils guidelines on Medicaid work requirements

The Trump administration has taken a major step in allowing states to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients for the first time.
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consumerreports.org
Choosing the Best Medicare Advantage Plan

In the months leading up to the fall Medicare open enrollment season, your mailbox may be overflowing with sales brochures from Medicare Advantage plans. Our advice is to ignore them. There are better, unbiased ways to pick the right plan for you.
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nytimes.com August 20, 2016
Private Equity Pursues Profits in Keeping the Elderly at Home

DENVER — Inside a senior center here, nestled along a bustling commercial strip, Vivian Malveaux scans her bingo card for a winning number. Her 81-year-old eyes are warm, lively and occasionally set adrift by the dementia plundering her mind.
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investornews.vanguard December 14, 2017
Your Investing Life™: Planning for health care in retirement

You may have seen scary estimates of how much money you’ll need for health care in retirement. The big numbers can make you feel as if you’ll never save enough. But there’s another way to look at these expenses. Like other basic living expenses, health care is a big line item.
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nytimes.com March 27, 2018
Medicare Is Cracking Down on Opioids. Doctors Fear Pain Patients Will Suffer.

Medicare officials thought they had finally figured out how to do their part to fix the troubling problem of opioids being overprescribed to the old and disabled: In 2016, a staggering one in three of the 43.6 million beneficiaries of the program’s drug plan had been prescribed the painkillers.
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npr.org June 6, 2017
Feds To Waive Penalties For Some Who Signed Up Late For Medicare

Each year, thousands of Americans miss their deadline to enroll in Medicare, and federal officials and consumer advocates worry that many of them mistakenly think they don't need to sign up because they have purchased insurance on the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces.
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jacobinmag.com May 28, 2017
Taking Single-Payer Seriously

Has the time for Medicare for All finally arrived? Many on the Left certainly think so. This is not just idle chitchat. A January Pew Research survey found that 60 percent of Americans think the government “has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
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npr.org July 5, 2017
As Seniors Get Sicker, They're More Likely To Drop Medicare Advantage Plans

When Sol Shipotow enrolled in a new Medicare Advantage health plan earlier this year, he expected to keep the doctor who treats his serious eye condition. Shipotow said he had to scramble to get back onto a health plan that he could afford and that his longtime eye specialist would accept.
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medicare.gov
How to get drug coverage

Medicare offers prescription drug coverage to everyone with Medicare. If you decide not to get Medicare drug coverage when you're first eligible, you'll likely pay a late enrollment penalty unless one of these applies:
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nytimes.com May 20, 2017
UnitedHealth Overbilled Medicare by Billions, U.S. Says in Suit

The Justice Department has sued UnitedHealth Group, saying that senior executives knew the company was overbilling Medicare by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and halted a repayment plan in 2014 so the money could be used to meet Wall Street’s revenue expectations.
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medicare.gov
What's Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap)?

Medigap policies are sold by private companies. Some Medigap policies also cover services that Original Medicare doesn't cover, like medical care when you travel outside the U.S. If you have Original Medicare and you buy a Medigap policy, here's what happens:
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nytimes.com October 3, 2016
The Two Mysteries of Medicare

A growing proportion of Medicare beneficiaries are opting out of the government-run insurance program. They are instead choosing a private plan alternative, one of the Medicare Advantage plans.
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nytimes.com August 31, 2014
The Medicare Miracle

So, what do you think about those Medicare numbers? What, you haven’t heard about them? Well, they haven’t been front-page news. But something remarkable has been happening on the health-spending front, and it should (but probably won’t) transform a lot of our political debate.
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medicare.gov
Medicare 2018 costs at a glance

Listed below are basic costs for people with Medicare. If you want to see and compare costs for specific health care plans, visit the Medicare Plan Finder.
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nytimes.com November 24, 2016
A Battle to Change Medicare Is Brewing, Whether Trump Wants It or Not

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump once declared that campaigning for “substantial” changes to Medicare would be a political death wish.
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newyorker.com October 2, 2017
Is Health Care a Right?

Is health care a right? The United States remains the only developed country in the world unable to come to agreement on an answer. Earlier this year, I was visiting Athens, Ohio, the town in the Appalachian foothills where I grew up.
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nytimes.com June 13, 2017
You’re Probably Going to Need Medicaid

Imagine your mother needs to move into a nursing home. It’s going to cost her almost $100,000 a year. Very few people have private insurance to cover this. Your mother will most likely run out her savings until she qualifies for Medicaid. This is not a rare event.
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foxbusiness.com January 28, 2017
Ready for Medicare? Not Until You Read This

Accordingto Fidelity Investments, a 65-year-old couple retiring this year will spend, on average, about $260,000 out of pocket on healthcare in retirement. One way to keep your healthcare costs in check is to be smart about Medicare and make savvy decisions. Here are three critical things to know.
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nytimes.com July 7, 2014
Gingrich’s Correct Prediction About Medicare’s Future

On Oct. 24, 1995, Newt Gingrich made an assertion about what would happen to Medicare if its beneficiaries could choose between it and private plans. Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it — voluntarily.
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medicare.gov
Medicare Savings Programs

You can get help from your state paying your Medicare premiums. In some cases, Medicare Savings Programs may also pay Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments if you meet certain conditions.
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cnbc.com May 3, 2018
Medicare doesn't cover everything. Here's how to avoid surprises

Each day in the United States, about 10,000 baby boomers celebrate their 65th birthday. Their gift from good old Uncle Sam is Medicare.
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nytimes.com April 14, 2015
In Race for Medicare Dollars, Nursing Home Care May Lag

Promises of “decadent” hot baths on demand, putting greens and gurgling waterfalls to calm the mind: These luxurious touches rarely conjure images of a stay in a nursing home.
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nytimes.com March 23, 2015
Hospitals Are Wrong About Shifting Costs to Private Insurers

To hear some hospital executives tell it, they have to make up payment shortfalls from Medicaid and Medicare by charging higher prices to privately insured patients. How else could a hospital stay afloat if it didn’t? But this logic is flawed.
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time.com March 25, 2018
There’s a Major Medicare Change Taking Place. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

In April, the government will start sending out new Medicare cards, launching a massive, yearlong effort to alter how 59 million people enrolled in the federal health insurance program are identified.
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thenation.com August 2, 2017
Medicare-for-All Isn’t the Solution for Universal Health Care

Within the broad Democratic coalition, it’s pretty clear that the discussion of health care has shifted to the left. Mainstream figures like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a potential presidential candidate in 2020, are embracing single payer.
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npr.org January 17, 2018
Home Care Agencies Often Wrongly Deny Medicare Help To The Chronically Ill

Colin Campbell needs help dressing, bathing and moving between his bed and his wheelchair. He has a feeding tube because his partially paralyzed tongue makes swallowing "almost impossible," he says.
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mymedicarematters.org
Medicare Questionnaire

This short assessment was created by the non-profit National Council on Aging (NCOA)—a trusted resource for Medicare information for over 50 years. It can help you:
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nytimes.com November 14, 2016
Politics Aside, We Know How to Fix Obamacare

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act marketplaces were supposed to give consumers choices of health plans from insurers that compete to keep premiums down. But fewer insurers are participating, and premiums are increasing sharply.
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washingtonpost.com June 1, 2017
Trump’s budget proposal doesn’t cut Medicare. It should.

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal 2018 is being condemned, right and left, for the cuts it imposes on various federal programs. Too little attention is being paid to the necessary economizing the Trump budget avoids — specifically, with regard to Medicare.
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economist.com September 12, 2016
Why drug prices in America are so high

“DRUGS have been marketed at such extraordinarily high prices that many people will simply not be able to afford them,” wrote a top cancer doctor in a scathing editorial in the Washington Post. That was in 2004.
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npr.org May 19, 2015
How Medicare Advantage Investors Profited From Loose Government Lips

On Wall Street, Feb. 3, 2011, was mostly a ho-hum day. But not for companies that sell Medicare Advantage plans.
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npr.org March 13, 2018
Lifting Medicare's Annual Limits On Physical Therapy Helps Ease Patients' Pain

Physical therapy helps Leon Beers get out of bed in the morning and maneuver around his home using his walker. Occupational therapy strengthens the 73-year-old man's throat muscles so that he can communicate and swallow food, says his sister Karen Morse.
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npr.org February 7, 2017
White House Says Medicare Should Leverage Its Buying Power To Pull Down Drug Prices

Drug companies could be forgiven if they're confused about whether President Donald Trump thinks the government should get involved in negotiating the price of prescription drugs for Medicare patients.
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nytimes.com August 7, 2017
Medicare Advantage Spends Less on Care, So Why Is It Costing So Much?

The Medicare Advantage program was supposed to save taxpayers money by allowing insurers to offer older Americans private alternatives to Medicare. The plans now cover 19 million people, a third of all those who qualify for Medicare.
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fortune.com April 21, 2016
60 Ways to Fix the Economy

Since we launched in 2010, No Labels has had a distinct focus: Bringing America’s leaders together to solve big problems. For the past two years, No Labels has worked diligently to create a playbook for our next president that represents both good politics and good policy.
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slate.com December 5, 2016
Is Paul Ryan Really Crazy Enough to Take on Medicare?

One cannot think of a more tone-deaf political response to the 2016 election than an effort to privatize Medicare.
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nytimes.com August 18, 2014
Medicare Advantage Is More Expensive, but It May Be Worth It

Medicare Advantage plans — private plans that serve as alternatives to the traditional, public program for those that qualify for it — underperform traditional Medicare in one respect: They cost 6 percent more. But they outperform traditional Medicare in another way: They offer higher quality.
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nytimes.com January 30, 2017
A Republican Plan for Medicare Gets a Revival

A number of Republican health care policy proposals that seemed out of favor in the Obama era are now being given new life. One of these involves Medicare, the government health insurance program primarily for older Americans, and is known as premium support.
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pbs.org September 23, 2017
HHS hints at major changes to Medicare that could mean higher costs for patients

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is signaling it will pursue significant changes to Medicare that could put beneficiaries on the hook for higher costs. In an informal proposal on Wednesday, federal health officials hinted at several new pilot programs it may implement in the months ahead.
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washingtonpost.com April 28, 2013
If this was a pill, you’d do anything to get it

Update, 7/1/2013: Today was the day that Health Quality Partners -- the wildly successful Medicare experiment I profiled back in April -- was supposed to shut down. But on Thursday, Medicare hit "snooze" on the doomsday clock. HQP, they said, could have another 18 months. Here's their reasoning:
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jacobinmag.com July 3, 2017
The Case Against the Public Option

The saga of Trumpcare may finally be behind us. The wretched bill would have wrenched coverage from tens of millions, and — by many estimates — cost tens of thousands of lives a year. Liberals and leftists rightly united in opposition against it.
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nytimes.com February 2, 2016
The Real Reason Medicare Is a Lousy Drug Negotiator: It Can’t Say No

That is a rule that, surely, Donald Trump knows. And yet in suggesting that Medicare could find big discounts by letting the government negotiate directly over drug prices, he seems to have forgotten it. Mr.
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forbes.com September 5, 2016
Have PPO Networks Perpetrated The Greatest Heist In American History?

The Washington Post and Vox have done excellent reporting that shows U.S. spends so much more than other countries for one simple reason -- price.
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consumerreports.org October 14, 2014
Medigap vs Medicare Advantage

Original Medicare is the familiar program that's been around since 1965. In original Medicare, the government pays Medicare's share of your medical bills directly to doctors and hospitals. You can go to any doctor or hospital anywhere in the country that accepts Medicare reimbursement.
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nytimes.com October 26, 2015
Costs for Dementia Care Far Exceeding Other Diseases, Study Finds

Three diseases, leading killers of Americans, often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them — heart disease and cancer — usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalizations. The third, dementia, has no effective treatments to slow its course.
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vox.com September 13, 2017
Bernie Sanders's new Medicare-for-all plan, explained

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will release a proposal Wednesday afternoon to transition the United States to a single-payer health care system, one where a single government-run plan provides insurance coverage to all Americans.
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nytimes.com December 15, 2015
The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — As part of his push for the Affordable Care Act in 2009, President Obama came to Central High School to laud this community as a model of better, cheaper health care. “You’re getting better results while wasting less money,” he told the crowd.
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nytimes.com November 6, 2015
Health Savings Accounts and Medicare

SPECIAL rules apply to older people who contribute to tax-favored health savings accounts as they near age 65 and become eligible for federal Medicare coverage. Under current rules, once people enroll in Medicare, they can no longer make new contributions to an H.S.A.
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huffingtonpost.com November 25, 2016
The 6 Medicare Mistakes Everyone Should Avoid

Choosing the Medicare plan that is right for you can be time-consuming, confusing, and frustrating. “I use automobiles as an analogy,” says Philip Moeller, author of Get What’s Yours for Medicare and a research fellow at The Center on Aging & Work at Boston College.
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kff.org September 26, 2016
The Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit

Medicare Part D is a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit for people on Medicare that went into effect in 2006.
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newyorker.com February 15, 2015
How Medicare Was Made

Fifty years ago, Congress created Medicare and Medicaid and remade American health care. The number of elderly citizens lacking access to hospitals and doctors plummeted. Hospitals, physicians, and state and local governments came to depend on this federal funding.
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latimes.com June 1, 2017
What would California's proposed single-payer healthcare system mean for me?

The prospect of a universal single-payer healthcare system in California — in which the state covers all residents’ healthcare costs — has enthralled liberal activists, exasperated business interests and upended the political landscape in the state Capitol.
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nytimes.com November 2, 2016
Comparing Medicare Prescription Drug Plans

People covered by Medicare have a few more weeks to change their prescription drug plans, during the program’s annual open enrollment period. Much attention has been paid to Affordable Care Act coverage, because the annual sign-up period for plans sold on government marketplaces began this week.
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cato.org May 6, 2013
How Government Killed the Medical Profession

I am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. And I am fed up. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from CT scans to robot-assisted surgery.
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jacobinmag.com October 4, 2017
The Case for Single-Payer

The existing system of insurance in America — a heavily commodified, limited-coverage, multi-payer model — represents the abject failure of market liberalism. At the core of the problem is a basic fact: it’s not profitable to insure people who are sick or likely to get sick.
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npr.org April 20, 2018
How Medicare's Conflicting Hospitalization Rules Cost Me Thousands Of Dollars

The payment was to secure a place for my mother at Sligo Creek Center, in Takoma Park, Md. It's a nursing home and rehab center owned by Genesis Healthcare. My mother was about to be discharged from Holy Cross Hospital, in nearby Silver Spring, after a fall.
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nytimes.com July 15, 2017
‘Medicare for All’ Isn’t Sounding So Crazy Anymore

During the 2016 campaign, Andrea Barton Gurney thought that single-payer health care was simply out of the question. A self-described moderate, Ms. Gurney, 56, assumed that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats would keep trying to make the Affordable Care Act work. Now she has changed her mind.
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nytimes.com January 4, 2016
The Hidden Financial Incentives Behind Your Shorter Hospital Stay

After one of her operations, my sister-in-law left the hospital so quickly that she couldn’t eat for days; after other stays, she wasn’t discharged until she felt physically and mentally prepared.
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bloomberg.com May 19, 2016
How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes

In August 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals and its then-chief executive, Martin Shkreli, purchased a drug called Daraprim and immediately raised its price more than 5,000 percent. Within days, Turing contacted Patient Services Inc.
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medicare.gov
What Part B covers

What's covered? Medicare covers services (like lab tests, surgeries, and doctor visits) and supplies (like wheelchairs and walkers) considered medically necessary to treat a disease or condition.
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nytimes.com March 24, 2017
What Comes Next for Obamacare? The Case for Medicare for All

Republicans are in a bind. They’ve been promising to repeal Obamacare for seven years, and having won control of the White House and Congress, they had to try to deliver.
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