There comes a time in many people’s lives where they decide they can no longer sit on the sidelines and wait for someone else to address an issue that concerns them or someone near to them. They realize they must go after federal and local lawmakers to get issues of equity addressed. Entitlement reform may [...]
Plan to Temporarily Raise Doctors’ Medicaid Fees Causes Confusion
October 24, 2012 | Posted by
To recruit more doctors to treat the poor, President Obama’s health-care law took a simple approach: temporarily pay doctors more money. Starting Jan. 1, primary-care doctors when treating patients on Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor, will get the same rates they are paid when caring for seniors in the Medicare program. [...]
John Boehner: No Cooperation With Obama in A Second Term
September 21, 2012 | Posted by
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made an apparent pledge to non-cooperation should President Barack Obama be elected in November’s elections. Throughout the president’s first term in office, Congress’s Republican majority has fought to maintain strict boundaries on tax and budget issues, a policy that Boehner hopes to preserve regardless of who is chosen as [...]
Giant Health Insurers Hope to Strike Gold Managing Care for Sickest, Poorest, Oldest
August 22, 2012 | Posted by
Giant health insurers have been gobbling up smaller ones, partly to strike gold with a new government experiment allowing them to manage care for millions of the nation’s sickest, poorest and oldest patients. Some 15 states are in different stages of creating demonstration programs that allow managed care companies to care for so-called “dual-eligible” patients [...]
Many Doctors Feel Forced to Stop Accepting New Medicare Patients
August 20, 2012 | Posted by
There are 600,000 physicians in America who care for the 48 million seniors on Medicare. Of the $716 billion that the Affordable Care Act cuts from the program over the next ten years, the largest chunk—$415 billion—comes from slashing Medicare’s reimbursement rates to doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes. This significant reduction in fees is driving [...]
Paul Ryan Brings Mother to Florida to Make His Medicare Case
August 18, 2012 | Posted by
As President Obama and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan battle over which one represents more of a threat to Medicare, Ryan today will be calling on a biased but forceful surrogate to help him make his case: his mother. Ryan is diving into the heart of the Medicare world, campaigning in central Florida in a [...]
Allen West Calls Campaign Ad Against Him ‘Racist’
August 13, 2012 | Posted by
A campaign ad released by American Sunrise PAC depicts West wearing a pair of boxing gloves, punching a pair of white women, coinciding with his political history in which he “socked it to seniors” by voting to cut Medicare and his vote against the Violence Against Women Act. West said the response would be different [...]
