1 "Medicare" is available to victims of advanced kidney disease.

2 After a $75 deductible, Medicare pays 80 per cent of doctors' bills.

3 Democrats, too, have painful Medicare memories.

4 The Republicans in Congress cut Medicare $ 270 billion.

5 He attacked them on Medicare reform.

6 Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education and the Pentagon.

7 However, seniors under Medicare had worse outcomes in HMOs.

8 Or aren't turned away because you're a Medicare patient.

9 The Republican intentions with Medicare are pretty clear.

10 The bill was paid by Medicare.

11 Except Medicare,[] which pays the full amount.

12 Dole voted to cut Medicare by $ 270 billion.

13 They also qualified for food stamps and Medicare.

14 Public and private third-party programs include Medicare and Medicaid.

15 Ninety-three individuals and corporations have been excluded from Medicare and Medicaid programs since March 1995.

16 The Medicare system is based on trust, so it is open to abuse.

17 Social security, unemployment compensation, welfare, Medicare, food stamps, and public housing are examples.

18 Congress is changing Medicare in ways that will push more elderly beneficiaries into managed-care plans.

19 Medicare pays for each test according to its schedule of fees.

20 Can you imagine requiring that all Medicaid and Medicare recipients go to public hospitals?

21 Officials estimate the Medicare fund will be insolvent by 2002.

22 The President paid today a surprise visit to two Medicare patients.

23 The improved forecast is largely due to lower projected costs for Medicare and Medicaid and welfare reform.

24 Pharmaceuticals and health-products firms, which have a stake in Medicaid and Medicare reforms, $ 1. 3 million.

25 After two years of being on experimental drugs for her epilepsy, Harlan got on Medicare via Social Security disability.

26 He said it was too soon to tell whether more plans would leave Medicare despite the rising payments.

27 Some health care experts were also disappointed by Bush's overall Medicare spending.

28 It now also includes politically daring proposals to increase premiums for the very highest income beneficiaries and raise the Medicare eligibility age.

29 The expense of these programs would be covered by Medicare for the first time.

30 Callers are given appropriate phone numbers to call for help, and perhaps an explanation of Medicaid or Medicare.

31 For the elderly, Medicare HMOs offer prescription coverage and other extras at no added cost.

32 We have to be vigilant about protecting Medicare and Medicaid.

33 The database and a new Medicare payment system are scheduled to begin operating next year and be completed in 1999.

34 Today the employer-employee payroll tax burden has hit a joint 15. 3 %, if you include Medicare.

35 A universal system of health insurance known as Medicare, funded from general taxation, was introduced in 1984.

36 And Dole is on record opposing the Medicare concept from its inception.

37 The direct cost of Social Security and Medicare to employees stood at $ 464 billion in 1994.

38 The administration wants the patients' 20 percent share also brought under the Medicare fee schedule.

39 Medicare is the federal health insurance program for the elderly.

40 They believe he would do a better job of protecting, such as Social Security, Medicare, education and the environment.

41 She spends $ 300 or less on health care a year and pays $ 1, 625 in Medicare and Medigap premiums.

42 It favours the employed with good incomes on the one hand and the Medicare and Medicaid programmes on the other.

43 The difference is that he would pay the total premium costs to Medicare and leave out Medigap.

44 And he called a news conference Thursday to propose a 10 percent increase for Medicare.

45 An attempt to pass a Republican budget that includes major changes in Medicare may occur again next month.

46 CareFirst withdrew from the federal Medicare program last year and limited its Maryland Medicaid coverage to the city of Baltimore.

47 In effect,() Gingrich is holding the Interior Department hostage to his attempt to put new restrictions on Medicare patients.

48 And the Republicans also plan to phase out Medicare entirely, replacing it with a kind of fixed-sum voucher system.

49 Diagnostic services attract lower benefits, while some services provided by professions allied to medicine are not covered by Medicare.

50 Firms also dropped coverage for retirees who qualify for Medicare from 40 to 35 percent, the survey said.

51 They fell short of the sizable reductions they had sought in spending for Medicare, coverage for the elderly and disabled.

52 Health-care bonds anywhere are risky these days, especially with changes brewing in Medicare and Medicaid.

53 The biggest savings from any one program will come from the Medicare health care program for the old and disabled.

54 On the campaign trail, Dole has ruled out cutting defense, Social Security and Medicare.

55 Most senior citizens also lack coverage for prescription drugs and dental care, which are not covered by Medicare.

56 The president vetoed those cuts, and is working to keep Medicare affordable for this and future generations of seniors.

57 The plan also calls for balancing the budget without deep cuts in Medicare, education and environmental protection.

58 Decisions made in the absence of a direct budget constraint, such as those made for Medicare reimbursement in health planning.

59 Currently, Medicare covers no preventive measures except for flu shots and mammograms every other year for women over 65.

60 It is still acting as if Democrats offer a free ride to Medicare reform and the Republicans a drive over the cliff.

61 Something has happened, however, to the bargain that Social Security and Medicare have been.

62 Clinton and others in Washington have talked of establishing a bipartisan commission to study Medicare.

63 More seniors would move to Medicare HMOs under budget-cutting plans being considered in Congress.

64 Democratic plans for Medicare rely mostly on putting a squeeze on health care providers, such as hospitals and doctors.

65 Those wages are subject to Social Security, Medicare, income and federal unemployment taxes.

66 Part B Medicare covers doctor visits and other outpatient care.

67 As a federal spending program, Medicare now ranks fourth behind Social Security, defense and debt service.

68 Approximately 75 percent of taxpayers are now paying more in Social Security and Medicare taxes than they pay in income taxes.

69 He voted against much of the Great Society anti-poverty program[ ], including a 1965 vote against creating Medicare.

70 Hernandez and Brown said they anticipate that Congress will cooperate and grant the city Medicare and Medicaid waivers.

71 Similarly, our social security and Medicare programs provide financial support for the retired and aged sick.

72 Medicare pays $ X for each kidney dialysis, $ Y for a double heart bypass.

73 Recently a self-styled young adults' lobby called Third Millennium hit on a provocative way to explain the impending Medicare crisis.

74 Other fixes are more complex and include changing how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals, monitors spending and subsidizes private health insurers.

75 Last but certainly not least, Social Security and Medicare have been very good deals for participants.

76 The stockings would not be covered under traditional Medicare rules.

77 A part of the Democratic campaign litany is the claim that Republicans cut spending for Medicare.

78 The cost of blood testing strips used by diabetics to check their blood sugar also would be paid by Medicare.

79 That includes fraud against private health plans and against government programs such as Medicare.

80 The result is that the entire cost will be paid out of general Treasury funds, rather than by Medicare recipients.

81 Mitchell noted that on a number of issues such as Medicare and college loans, unions had fought Gingrich and the Republicans.

82 Further regulation is not likely to improve things. Medicare and Medicaid have a plethora of policies that escalate their own costs.

83 So we have been moving to make matters worse by encouraging private insurers to take over Medicare.

84 When Clinton won re-election, senior Republicans pointedly said Clinton had to take the first step on any Medicare proposals.

85 This, they added, could jeopardize other large benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

86 Greg Ganske, R-Iowa, managed to include in the big Medicare and Medicaid funding measures important protections for managed-care patients.

87 Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs that comprise two-thirds of the federal budget.

88 Not even Jack Kemp could credibly explain how the Dole plan would work without tapping entitlements like Medicare or busting the budget.

89 She estimated Medicare could save $ 2 billion annually by using computers to reject improper claims.

90 The Republican plan would reduce Medicare spending by $ 270 billion over seven years.

91 The plan would set up a new payment system for services to Medicare patients who see their doctors at hospital outpatient clinics.

92 Medicare also would reduce co-payments for services received at hospitals and clinics on an outpatient basis.

93 Age-sensitive political issues such as Social Security and Medicare will play a major role in the campaign, of course.

94 When people want to live at home and need some help, Medicare will not pay for it.

95 Jude Medical and Medtronic gained as federal budget talks stalled, making drastic cuts in the Medicare health insurance program less likely.

96 The Web site provides the latest information on Medicare and Medicaid.

97 In collective systems like Social Security and Medicare, the risks are hidden and beyond the control of individuals.

98 He would talk about what is going on in the budget battle, what is going on in the Medicare debate.

98

99 Republicans were pushing for saving about $ 168 billion from the Medicare health program for the elderly over the next seven years.

100 That spending covers all federal functions but automatically paid benefits like Medicare, and would total $ 661 billion next year.

101 Medicare and Medicaid have a plethora of policies that escalate their own costs.

102 Medicare cuts in the 1997 federal budget deal, in turn, helped make possible capital-gains tax cuts for investors.

103 Alternatively, judges might become deeply involved in determining budget policy, including whether Social Security or Medicare checks should be stopped.

104 Medicare generally doesn't help pay for medicines outside of a hospital stay.

105 Suggested it would take a bipartisan commission to find answers for long-term imbalances in Social Security and Medicare.

106 C., making drastic cuts in Medicare reimbursement unlikely for now.

107 Dole says he will not touch Medicare, and he wants to throw more money at the Pentagon.

108 Forbes was protesting a Clinton administration effort to close a Medicare tax loophole that benefits thousands of business partnerships.

109 In California, 38 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are members of HMOs, compared with about 11. 5 percent nationally.

110 The introduction of Medicare in 1984 improved access to services, but underlying problems remain.

111 We are told that Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid are headed for trouble and that now is the time to act.

112 Medicare is a federally administered program of health benefits for elderly and disabled persons.

113 If they do this, the doctor is paid the 85% of the fee covered by Medicare and the patient pays nothing.

114 Approved for use by Medicare and the US Military.

115 These are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

116 The Medicare reform process characterises Newt Gingrich's style.

117 How Much Savings Can We Wring from Medicare?

118 Medicare is the binding commitment of a caring society.

119 Medicare is preparing to cut all payments by a flat 2%.

120 Less government spending. Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, a means test for Social Security.

121 And, above all, we need to know what works and what doesn't so that Medicare and Medicaid can say no to expensive procedures with little or no medical benefit.

122 The weight of the evidence has succeeded in gaining Medicare payment for rehabilitation services, which has been one of our major hurdles to access.

123 The 2009 report unfunded liability of social security and Medicare shows a 107 trillion dollars deficit.

124 Humana, already a leader in public health programmes, has bought two Medicare firms this year (so far) and WellPoint has bought one.

125 The Family Court orders also permit the girl to apply for a new birth certificate, passport and Medicare card in a boy's name.

126 According to a column in Kaiser Health News, Republican staffers jeered at any and all proposals to use Medicare and Medicaid funds better.

127 Medicare has said that it cannot overturn its decision without new evidence.

128 Federal self - employment tax -- Required by those who work for themselves to cover Social Security and Medicare contributions.

129 The government issued revised estimates on the solvency of Social Security and Medicare.

130 In 2011,[sentence dictionary] the first of the 78-million-strong baby-boom generation will become eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits.

131 When President Kennedy and President Johnson were working to create Medicare, opponents warned of'socialized medicine. "

132 Coronary bypass surgery, for example, costs on average about $20, 000 overseas (including various doctor and hospital fees and travel expenses), while the average Medicare reimbursement is $21, 000.

133 It is time to raise more rapidly the normal retirement age for persons in reasonably good health to age 70 before they become eligible for either social security or Medicare benefits.

134 The medicare cost is estimated to be one billion dollars.

135 The health-reform bill that President Obama signed into law last week—the unmemorably named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—could prove as momentous as Medicare.

136 Today, Medicare — which is, by the way, one of those “single payer” systems conservatives love to demonize — covers everyone 65 and older.

137 On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law.

138 Obama's proposal to give MedPAC, the expert advisory board to Medicare , real power.

139 The eventual goal would be to move to a completely voluntary system where people only pay payroll taxes into Social Security and Medicare if they choose to participate in those programs.

140 But they also say that defense, Medicare and Social Security — all the big-ticket items — are off the table.

141 The Dartmouth Atlas project has scrutinised variations in health outcomes and spending involving Medicare.

142 A new Medicare prescription drug benefit is bringing peace of mind to seniors and the disabled.

143 Examples are higher payments for doctors treating Medicare patients and fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax to keep middle class taxpayers immune from the tax meant for millionaires.

144 Chinatown Neighborhood Occurring Retirement Community hosted a seminar at the CCBA. Mr. Peter Lau from Manning Pharmacy introduced the details of Medicare Part D.

145 Social Security and Medicare have a total unfunded liability in excess of $100 trillion.

146 He asked the Democrats to work with him to reform the entitlement programs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which threaten to balloon into enormous long-term liabilities.

147 On top of that, the range of error is particularly large owing to the uncertainties in forecasting Medicare costs.

148 To be responsible for arranging medicare, life welfare and health maintenance service for retired cadres.

149 The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an independent federal panel, has recommended an increase of up to 10 percent in the payment for many primary care services, including office visits.

150 But as Van de Water and Horney have highlighted, 2 Congress has passed many Medicare cuts during the past 20 years, and the physician-payment cut is the only one that has not taken effect.

151 Leaders of both political parties have talked for years about strengthening Medicare.

152 The new law allows ACOs that meet quality-of-care targets and reduce their costs relative to a spending benchmark to receive a share of the savings they achieve for the Medicare program.

153 Like Medicare, which overrode its cost estimates by ten times.

154 Medicare Part B carries a $96.40 (cent) monthly premium, which rises every year.

155 Clinton also urges fellow Democrats to "saddle up" on tough budget issues such as roping in Social Security and Medicare spending.

156 What will happen when Medicare and Social Security run out of money?

157 Medicare, the giant health scheme for the elderly, is federally financed and run.

158 In a statement,[http:///medicare.html] Medicare said it would " examine our policies. "

159 He included doctors and hospital groups, both losers in past Medicare reforms.

160 Social Security and Medicare total unfunded liability in excess of $ 100 trillion. In short, the U.

161 It is no surprise that spending on drugs by the elderly were not part of Medicare at the beginning since drugs were a minor part of their total medical spending in 1965.

162 He fulminated against the Republicans'plan to cut Medicare; She railed against the bad social policies.

163 The Democratic bill would lift a noninterference clause in the Medicare prescription - drug law.

164 Federal Medicaid and Medicare conventions mandate that hospitals account for space according to use by department.

165 But successful programs like veterans’ health, Social Security and Medicare are in the crosshairs.

166 "There is no reason in the world we have to be this uncertain about the relative risks and benefits, " says Dr. Sean Tunis, a former chief medical officer of Medicare.

167 We have a huge fiscal hole out there which is best measured by the fact that Medicare benefits are only 50% funded going all the way out.

168 They started out a lot of talk about Medicate and Medicare.

169 It's why Lyndon Johnson established Medicare at the peak of the long post - World War II expansion.

170 Issues concerning long - term care, Medicare, and insurance loom large.

171 Conclusion. Lumbosacral injections increased dramatically in the Medicare population from 1994 to 2001.

172 Since 2003, Congress, under Republican and Democratic leadership, has deferred these cuts in Medicare reimbursements from going into effect.

173 With the reform of medicare payment system , the tendency of hospital cost accounting will develop mote and more, include medical department cost, medical service item cost and DRGs cost, etc .

174 Together we will strengthen Medicare and offer prescription drug coverage to all of our seniors.

175 By all accounts, every year we lose billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid funds from fraud.

176 These tax breaks can be coupled with the opening of Medicare to anyone who wants to buy in, thereby getting a jump start on Obama's health insurance programme.

177 Once again, I recommended that we lock away the Social Security surplus, about $2.3 trillion, and that we save about $550 billion for Medicare.

178 One of the best moves we could make, adds Litan, would be a long-term budget deal that would address the looming Social Security/Medicare payouts for baby boomers.

179 They started out with a lot of talk about Medicate and Medicare.

180 If currents trends continue, Medicare expenditures are likely to outpace revenues.

181 How do you explain the fact, for instance, that in Boulder, Colo., the average cost of Medicare treatment is $9,103, whereas an hour away in Fort Collins, Colo., the cost is $6,448?

182 Yesterday, we saw the cloture of the Medicare Modernization Act.

183 Investment in roads and education, for instance, ought not to be lumped in with costly and unreformed entitlements, like Social Security and Medicare.

184 There is already a Medicare Advisory Payment Commission, but it isn't allowed to actually cut costs.

185 That raise raised the costs of medicare Medicare, which represented 15 % of the federal budget year.

186 And you use Medicare as a supplement to that plan?

187 It changed Medicare dramatically, moving it toward market incentives and individual choice.

188 Discretionary spending makes up roughly one third of the federal budget; the rest goes to mandatory programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

189 The administration proposes cuts in the growth of Medicare and Medicaid.