Medicare doctors
Not every doctor accepts medicare patients. Many doctors only accept a few. The same is true of medicaid patients. This is because government payments are less than the going rate for their...
View ArticleMedicare crisis
Part of the new federal health care plan will be funded by cuts to Medicare, the existing government program that pays for health care for the elderly. Already, though, an increasing number of...
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Demagoguing Medicare reform proposals. From the Washington Post fact checker: “The Republicans have a plan to end Medicare as we know it. What they would do is they would take the people who are...
View ArticleMedicare, the free market, and a drug that doesn’t work
This story will make you discouraged about BOTH the government AND the free market when it comes to healthcare. Peter Whoriskey reports: The U.S. health-care system is vastly overspending for a single...
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