Medicare Payments
Health care officials spoke at an Alliance for Health Reform and Kaiser Family Foundation forum on the launch of the Medicare and Medicaid Services' new way to pay for Medicare services. The…
475 viewsHealth care officials spoke at an Alliance for Health Reform and Kaiser Family Foundation forum on the launch of the Medicare and Medicaid Services' new way to pay for Medicare services. The…
475 viewsPanelists talked about the status of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Dan Durham said that repealing or delaying the health care law’s individual mandate would be a bad idea. H…
404 viewsMedicare officials and representatives from private health insurance companies spoke about U.S. health care costs and projections for spending on health care. Among the issues they addressed…
114 viewsThe Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a news conference and talked about the results of their study of "Out-of-Pocket Medicare Prescription Drug Costs".
69 viewsMs. Wilenski and Ms. Moon talked about health care insurance, the number of uninsured Americans, and potential solutions to the problem of underinsurance. They also responded to viewer comme…
55 viewsBoth the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed different versions of Medicare prescription drug legislation in July. Experts talked about what is in the differing versions…
60 viewsThe Senate Finance Committee held this hearing about reforming Medicare policy to provide prescription drug benefits to seniors. Among the issues they addressed were the costs associated wit…
79 viewsParticipants talked about the rising out-of-pocket expenses paid by Medicare recipients. Among the topics addressed were prescription drug costs, premium costs, and the state of the health c…
44 viewsPanelists discussed the future of Medicare as part of the American “social contract.” They talked about the many facets of Medicare, including funding for residents, and home health service…
78 viewsMs. Moon and Mr. Penner discussed the need to reform the Social Security system. They stressed the importance of informing the public in advance of any programs changes so that people can ad…
46 viewsMembers of the first and second panels took questions from a demographically selected audience. They examined the principles for Social Security reform and various alternatives, including di…
51 viewsGwen Ifill moderated a discussion among scholars of the problems facing Social Security. They examined how the system can be changed to uphold benefit promises, which included some options t…
28 viewsHealth care policy experts discussed federal budget proposals affecting Medicare and possible solutions for maintaining the program’s long term viability. They focused on Medicare payments t…
93 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
74 viewsThe Senate Finance Subcommittee heard testimony on the Social Security trustees' annual report which said that in 75 years, the Social Security System will be bankrupt. Social Security Admin…
102 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
90 viewsHouse and Senate Democrats heard testimony concerning both Democratic and Republican Medicare and Medicaid proposals. Several witnesses testified as to how these proposals would affect benef…
50 viewsSenator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) moderated a forum on private health care spending trends. Participants discussed the rising costs of public and private health care plans and how th…
34 viewsCommittee members heard testimony on the state of the government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. Medicare provides health care to more than 36 million senior citizens and disabled individu…
79 viewsThe Alliance for Heath Care Reform hosted a panel discussion on the future of health care. The discussion focused on the impact of reforms on the U.S. economy, the health care industry and t…
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