Posts Tagged ‘Medicare’

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Aug24

Don’t Get Old (Part II)

by Duane on August 24th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Posted In: Headlines

WASHINGTON – (AP) Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn’t happened since automatic increases were adopted [...]

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Aug12

ObamaCare: Defining quality and other stuff

by Duane on August 12th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Economy, Headlines, Obama Health Care, Politics

Provision to define quality in health care by government.
SEC. 1442. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW QUALITY MEASURES;
GAO EVALUATION OF DATA COLLECTION
PROCESS FOR QUALITY MEASUREMENT.
Part E of title XI of the Social Security Act, as added
by section 1441, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new sections:
S‘‘SEC. 1192. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW QUALITY MEASURES.
‘‘(a) AGREEMENTS WITH QUALIFIED [...]

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Aug03

End of the world as we know it

by Duane on August 3rd, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Posted In: Economy, Follow the money, Headlines, Our Health, Politics, Science & Research

I am just amazed and outright appalled at how folks are so enraptured by Obama that they would not even question what he is proposing to do with health care in this country. While many of us dissected, consumed, regurgitated and dissected again the Gates Gate, there hasn’t been nearly as much close analysis by [...]

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