Opinion
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Biden’s Medicare Advantage Cuts Are Tantamount to Throwing Grandma Over the Cliff
Opinion -Biden didn’t merely propose Medicare Advantage (MA) reforms a dozen years in the future. He cut rates from a projected 2.44 percent to 2.33 percent, despite industry predictions of a 4 to 6 percent growth rate. -
Commentary: Medicare for All is No Match for a Coronavirus
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, head of President Donald Trump’s task force on the novel coronavirus, declared a public health emergency in response to the global outbreak of the pathogen. -
New Medicare Payment Model to Incentivize At-Home Kidney Dialysis
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is finalizing rules for a mandatory payment model meant to improve kidney care and reduce costs. -
Medicare for All Would Reduce Household Income by 11 Percent, Study Finds
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Most Americans will pay much higher taxes and earn less income if Medicare for All becomes law, a new study by The Heritage Foundation states. -
President’s Executive Order Increases Freedom Under Medicare—But There’s More to Be Done
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -President Trump, thank you very much for Section 11, Maximizing Freedom for Medicare Patients and Providers, of your Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors. -
Role of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants to Expand Under Medicare
Opinion -health-care-news, News -President Donald Trump signed an executive order to allow nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to practice under their full scope as Medicare providers. -
52 Trillion Reasons to Oppose Warren’s Medicare for All Plan
Opinion -Editorial -Warren is resorting to her old, tired class-warfare tactics to gain support for her insane Medicare for All plan. Hopefully, Americans will see right through this socialist sham. Otherwise, they will have 52 trillion reasons to wish they had. -
No Medicare for All for Illegals
Opinion -Editorial -In short, providing Medicare for All to millions of illegal immigrants is immoral, impractical, and completely unaffordable. -
Public’s Medicare for All Doubts Confront Presidential Candidates
Opinion -News -Candidates for the Democrat Party presidential nomination who have been defending the costs of their health care proposals are facing big doubts among their potential voters about their plans for a single-payer, Medicare for All system. -
Medicare for All Would Be Quite Costly to Middle Class Americans After All
Opinion -Editorial -Sen. Elizabeth Warren, like most of the Democrats running for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, is all-in on Medicare for All (M4A). -
Poll: Voters Confused About Medicare for All
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Democrat voters are confused about what a single-payer, Medicare for All plan actually means, a new poll shows. -
Trump Issues Executive Order to Protect, Improve Medicare
Opinion -health-care-news, News -President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at shoring up Medicare’s financial health and delivering better care to the nation’s seniors. -
Medicare Coverage of CAR-T Cell Therapy Raises New Questions
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration’s greenlighting of CAR-T cell cancer therapy for Medicare patients nationwide put an end to the patchwork of local determinations on the use of the innovative and expensive treatment. -
Medicare for All Could End Bernie’s Chance for Stents
Opinion -Editorial -Bernie Sanders had to cancel some campaign events because of chest pain and treatment for clogged arteries. He received two coronary artery stents. -
Study: Medicare For All Would Require Huge Tax Hikes On The Middle Class
Opinion -Editorial -Several studies estimate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ recently released Medicare for All (M4A) plan would cost approximately $30–$40 trillion over the next decade. -
“Medicare for All” Model Set Back Kidney Care by Stifling Innovation and Access
Opinion -Editorial -If voters want a lesson in how a socialized health care system would work, they should learn how the U.S. health care system treats (or more accurately, mistreats) kidney patients. -
Study Questioned on Medicare Advantage Hospital Readmission Rates
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Hospital readmission rates for enrollees in Medicare Advantage (MA) are slightly higher than for those in traditional, fee-for-service Medicare plans, a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reports. -
Medicare For All Would Require Huge Tax Hikes On The Middle Class
Opinion -Editorial -In many cases, tax burdens would double, and for tens of millions of families, the increased taxes would far outweigh not needing to pay for health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs. -
HHS Finds Deficiencies in Hospice Care Under Medicare
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Hospice providers under Medicare commonly deliver poor service that endangers the health of those using the program, the Office of Inspector General in the U.S Department of Health and Human Services reports. -
Medicare for All: More Taxes, Worse Health Care, and Much More Debt
Opinion -Editorial -News flash: Medicare and Social Security, the nation’s two largest entitlement programs, are on the fast track towards bankruptcy. -
CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall. -
Medicare Is $38 Trillion Short – And Other Reasons Government Shouldn’t Run Anything
Opinion -Editorial -America’s Left has certainly evolved. Fifty years ago, it was the Left who didn’t trust Big Brother and wanted to stick it to The Man. Now they LOVE Big Brother, because they now are The Man -
Medicare for All Will Mean Waiting Lines, Rationing, Worse Care
Opinion -health-care-news, News -There is no question that many millions of Americans are frustrated with our current health care system. -
CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall.