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February 2000 Essma
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Mrs. Thompson (not her real name), a 76-year-old Virginia woman, suffers from Alzheimers. Drugs Drive Push For Medicare Reform
Hardship for seniors caused by the increasing cost of prescription drugs has spurred President Clinton to put Congress on notice that he will aggressively push his plan to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare this year. Organized Crime Targets Medicare & Medicaid
Organized criminal groups are skimming hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Medicare and Medicaid according to a new report by the General Accounting Office (GAO). Notch Bulletin: Fairness Is Non-Partisan
Americans are fond of thinking that ours is the fairest form of government in the world-fairest in equal treatment of all citizens. Medicare Funding Restored
The only Medicare legislation passed in the fiscal year 2000 budget was a package that returned about $16 billion previously trimmed from Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes, those who provide rehabilitative services, and other caregivers. Legislative Update: Real Opportunity For Prescription Drug Reform In 2000
Adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, reforming Medicare, Social Security`s solvency, annual Cost-Of-Living Adjustments to accurately reflect the true cost-of-living of older Americans, and the need to correct the Social Security Notch continue to be hotly debated in Washington. Congressional Corner from Representative Robert Wexler: Meet the Press, September 20, 1998
Last year, hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO`s) throughout the nation received disturbing news that their HMOs were pulling out of their region, placing caps on prescription drug coverage, or worse yet, dropping prescription drug coverage altogether.
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