Donna Weiner looks at Medicare’s prescription drug program from two different points of view. As a participant, she wants to pay less for her medicines. As a retired accountant who spent 50 years handling the books for companies, she sees a way to get there.
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Ban On Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices Under Pressure
Posted on 11 October 2021.
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What Stalemate On Capitol Hill Means for Your Drug Prices
Posted on 05 October 2021.
As President Joe Biden’s government overhaul stalls in Congress, tensions are mounting over what changes, if any, could come for Americans at the pharmacy counter.
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Ad’s Charge That Price Haggling Would ‘Swipe $500 Billion From Medicare’ Is False
Posted on 29 September 2021.
The advertisement opens with a doctor sitting across from his patient and holding a prescription drug pill bottle. “You want to continue with this medication?” the doctor asks while an older patient nods.
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Better Care Better Jobs Act Aims To Strengthen Human Infrastructure
Posted on 01 September 2021.
At the end of June, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, D-MI and Senator Bob Casey, D-PA, introduced the “Better Care Better Jobs Act,”(S.2210) to widen access to Medicaid’s home and community based services for low-income elderly and disabled people, and to improve pay for the frontline caregivers who provide home care.
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Why Doesn’t Medicare Cover Services We Need?
Posted on 12 August 2021.
Sorry, Joe Namath. Despite what you keep saying in those TV ads, under Medicare, seniors are not “entitled to eliminate copays and get dental care, dentures, eyeglasses, prescription drug coverage, in-home aides, unlimited transportation and home-delivered meals, all at no additional cost.”
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Democrats Plan To Boost Medicare, Long-Term Care Spending
Posted on 19 July 2021.
The budget package Democrats are assembling in Congress would likely provide the biggest jolt to the American health care system since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, according to sources familiar with work on the plan.
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