Recent News Headlines : Medicare

'I AM GOING TO DIE WITHOUT THIS'


The crackdown has particularly affected companies with Medicare patients on pricey medicine... READ MORE

22nd December, 2017 587

DONALD TRUMP'S TAX BILL 'WILL HAVE DEVASTATING EFFECT ON LGBT COMMUNITY'


David Stacy, director of government affairs at the Human Rights Commission, said on Tuesday that the tax bill threatens the healthcare of millions of Americans ... READ MORE

20th December, 2017 148

CUSTOMERS DEFY TRUMP ATTACKS TO BUY OBAMACARE, AND VOTE FOR IT


President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have repeatedly said Obamacare is failing, or even dead... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 962

AETNA RISES AFTER WSJ REPORTS CVS IN TALKS TO BUY INSURER


Gained in New York trading after the Wall Street Journal reported that CVS Health Corp... READ MORE

27th October, 2017 183

DEMOCRATS SHOULD ADOPT A SIMPLICITY AGENDA, FROM HEALTH CARE TO RETIREMENT


Medicare for All would dramatically reduce the complexity by creating an easy-to-use health insurance plan that all Americans can trust to cover the care they need... READ MORE

24th October, 2017 314

TRUMP ORDER ON HEALTH PLANS MAY UNDERMINE OBAMACARE OPTIONS


Small employers would potentially be able to band together from across the country to create association health plans and buy insurance together outside of Obamacare... READ MORE

12th October, 2017 1524

Trending News Headlines : Medicare

BERNIE SANDERS IF TRUMP DOESNT RESCUE OBAMACARE HE MUST ADMIT HES A LIAR


The truth is we shouldn't be debating whether to take health care away from 30 million Americans... READ MORE

10th January, 2017 50808

MEDICARE FOR ALL SHOULD REPLACE OBAMACARE


Expanding access to health care, as Obamacare does, is only half the job... READ MORE

8th January, 2017 37619

THE RICH ARE LIVING LONGER AND TAKING MORE FROM TAXPAYERS


Life expectancy trends also affect the long-term finances of entitlement programs such as Social Security... READ MORE

26th April, 2017 32474

REPUBLICAN BUDGET EXPERTS SAY TRUMP BUDGET DROPPED POPULISM


For Donald Trump, being a compassionate conservative like George W. Bush wasn't good enough... READ MORE

18th March, 2017 16976

FACT CHECK: TRUMP PULLS QUOTES ON ACA OUT OF CONTEXT


Trump quoted Bill Clinton as saying the law is crazy and Minnesota Gov. Dayton as saying the law is no longer affordable... READ MORE

4th January, 2017 7297

REGULATORS APPROVE HIGHER HEALTH PREMIUMS TO STRENGTHEN OBAMACARE INSURERS


As of Tuesday, those states are Arizona, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota and Utah... READ MORE

19th October, 2016 6371

BIG CORPORATE MONEY OPPOSES SINGLE-PAYER PROPOSAL


California Health Care Bill Big Corporate Money Opposes Single-Payer Proposal... READ MORE

26th April, 2017 6215

PERSPECTIVE | SHOULD HEALTHY PEOPLE HAVE TO PAY FOR CHRONIC ILLNESSES?


Spreading the costs so that healthy people pay more than their own care likely will warrant in a given year is one option... READ MORE

18th March, 2017 4842

AN ECONOMIST DOES THE MATH ON SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE


But days later, advocates of a universal health care system in which the government is the single payer got three boosts... READ MORE

29th June, 2017 3567

'NO CUTS'A TO MEDICAID


WASHINGTON -- President Trump attacked Democrats for their opposition to the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in a Saturday morning tweet... READ MORE

24th June, 2017 3440

AETNA'S EXIT DEALS BLOW TO OBAMACARE, PATIENTS


Aetna's Obamacare members in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and Virginia will be unaffected... READ MORE

16th August, 2016 3428

TRUMPCARE HAS SENIORS RETHINKING EARLY RETIREMENT


Nevertheless, millions of older Americans face a gap in health coverage between the time they stop working and when they become eligible for Medicare... READ MORE

24th March, 2017 1608

CLINTON FAVORS WIDER ACCESS TO MEDICARE


Mr. Sanders calls his single-payer health care plan Medicare for all. What Mrs. Clinton proposed was a sort of Medicare for more... READ MORE

11th May, 2016 1591

PLANNED MEDICAID CUTS A THREAT TO NURSING HOMES, MIDDLE CLASS


Under federal law, state Medicaid programs are required to cover nursing-home care... READ MORE

25th June, 2017 1241

SILICON VALLEY IS TRYING TO REINVENT HEALTH CARE, STARTING IN NEW JERSEY


She joined the health care startup Clover Health shortly after it started two years ago... READ MORE

11th December, 2016 1060

AETNA TO BUY HUMANA FOR $37 BILLION IN LARGEST INSURANCE DEAL


Aetna and Humana are in nine of the same states in Medicare Advantage... READ MORE

4th July, 2015 780

WHY KENTUCKY COULDN'T KILL OBAMACARE


Kentucky Republican Matt Bevin ran for governor on a platform devoted almost exclusively to killing Obamacare, including its expansion of Medicaid insurance to the poor... READ MORE

24th January, 2017 577

THE FALSE CHARMS OF BERNIE SANDERS'S SINGLE-PAYER PLAN


Could Bernie Sanders's Medicare for all proposal -- national health insurance -- be as good as he says?... READ MORE

8th February, 2016 540

69% OF AMERICANS WILL NEED LONG-TERM CARE SOMEDAY. HERE'S HOW TO PAY FOR IT


Medicare will not cover most long-term care expenses, because they are not considered medical treatments, though it will pay for the first 100 days of nursing-home care... READ MORE

12th May, 2017 324

MEDICARE TURNS 50 BUT AMERICANS STILL HAVE A LOT TO LEARN


Medicare the landmark health insurance program for those 65 and older turned 50 on Thursday... READ MORE

30th July, 2015 316

A CHECKUP FOR OBAMACARE REVEALS A POSITIVE PROGNOSIS


Lower-than-expected health-care costs have also resulted in lower-than-expected public health spending... READ MORE

8th January, 2016 299

BETWEEN ACA AND MEDICARE, SOME AMERICANS MAY HAVE TOO MUCH HEALTH COVERAGE


Each month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS is sending emails to about 15,000 people with subsidized marketplace coverage... READ MORE

12th October, 2016 259

HOW MOST DOCTORS, PATIENTS WILL BENEFIT FROM OBAMACARE REFORM


The question, therefore, is what will health care look like post-ObamaCare?... READ MORE

16th January, 2017 204

MEDICARE COVERAGE COULD BE EVEN MORE USEFUL AT AGE 50


Fried also envisions getting Medicare involved in activities that would help seniors maintain physical health and mental cognitive ability... READ MORE

20th June, 2015 179

AETNA IS LATEST BIG INSURER TO DELIVER BLOW TO OBAMACARE


The insurers say this deal should help alleviate regulator concerns that an Aetna-Humana combination would stifle competition in too many Medicare Advantage markets... READ MORE

3rd August, 2016 170

WHY PLANNING TO WORK IN RETIREMENT IS A RISKY BUSINESS


Researchers at the Center for Retirement Research CRR developed a susceptibility index for early retirement that ranks 400 occupations on a 1-100 scale 100 is highest risk ... READ MORE

6th September, 2015 147

ILLINOIS INSURANCE REGULATOR APPROVES AETNA PURCHASE OF HUMANA


"We now have change of control approvals in 17 of the 20 states required and continue to cooperate with the Department of Justice on its review," Aetna spokesman T.J... READ MORE

27th June, 2016 125

AETNA CEO ADDRESSES ANTITRUST CONCERNS OVER HUMANA DEAL


Mark Bertolini said Aetna had already prepared for possible divestitures to address overlaps with Humana's business in the largest-ever U.S... READ MORE

6th July, 2015 104

HUMANA, AETNA SET TERMINATION FEES FOR DEAL


The company had already prepared for possible divestitures to address overlaps with Humana's business, he added... READ MORE

8th July, 2015 92

TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT MEDICARE -- WHILE PAUL RYAN SIDES WITH OBAMA


His health law, the Affordable Care Act, tries to cut Medicare spending by paying bonuses to hospitals that spend the least per senior... READ MORE

11th May, 2016 91


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