Health-care and defense lobbyist preparing campaigns against budget cuts
The debt deal limit reached this week has health-care and defense lobbyists preparing for some major campaigns against proposed cuts to the industries.
New debt deal increases demands on medicare providers
Payments to them would be cut 2% if a deficit reduction plan is not put in place this year. Advocates for the elderly fear a loss of services, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Budget cuts look at training hospitals
Training programs for doctors may get a beating with budget cuts; hospitals are concerned.
Changes to Medicare may be reality
The idea of charging seniors more, once considered politically toxic, is likely to resurface in Washington, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Seniors fight to save Medicare
Cuts to Social Security and Medicare are viable options for the federal government as they look at budget reform, but seniors fight against it.
UPMC wants seamless divorce
UPMC hopes that the transition away from insurer Highmark Inc. will be smooth and easy.
Costly cancer drugs may or may not be covered by insurance
Neither the Food and Drug Administration, which decides which drugs can be marketed, nor Medicare, which decides which treatments to cover, considers costs, reports The New York Times.
Federal budget negotiations include health care cuts
Administration officials and Republican negotiators say the money can be taken from health care providers like hospitals and nursing homes without directly imposing new costs on needy beneficiaries or radically restructuring either program, reports The New York Times.
Medicare cuts rejected
Leading congressional Democrats immediately recoiled Tuesday from a new proposal to cut $600 billion in Medicare spending over the next decade — in part by raising the eligibility age, reports The Washington Post.
Health-care transition a slow process across the states
As many legislatures around the country have finished their work for the year, fewer than one-fourth of states have taken concrete steps to create health insurance marketplaces, a central feature of the federal law to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, reports The Washington Post.