Medicare

A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why. For decades, runaway Medicare spending was the story of the federal budget. Now, flat Medicare spending might be a bigger one. “This is the most important thing that has happened to the federal budget in the last twenty years." (www.nytimes.com)
2023-9-6 U.S. Medicare Budget

Pharmaceutical groups are suing the Biden administration for its Medicare plans (www.npr.org)
2023-9-4 Medicare

Humana sues the U.S. government to block a Biden administration policy allowing Medicare to claw back billions of dollars from insurers for overcharges. (www.reuters.com)
2023-9-2 U.S. Medicare

Humana sues U.S. government to block Medicare clawback rule (finance.yahoo.com)
2023-9-2 U.S. Medicare

PolitiFact - Is Joe Biden right that a new Medicare drug law will save $160 billion over 10 years? (www.politifact.com)
2023-9-2 Medicare

Biden Makes Lower Drug Prices a Centerpiece of His 2024 Campaign. The Inflation Reduction Act allows Medicare to negotiate some drug prices, a change that the pharmaceutical industry and Republicans have opposed for decades. (www.nytimes.com)
2023-9-1 Inflation Medicare Republican

Medicare starts a long road to cutting prices for drugs, starting with 10 costing it $50.5 billion annually – a health policy analyst explains why negotiations are promising but will take years (theconversation.com)
2023-8-31 Medicare

President Biden has confirmed negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to lower the costs of medications under the Medicare program (www.newssmex.com)
2023-8-31 Medicare

Biden Targets First Drugs to Face Deep Medicare Price Cuts (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2023-8-30 Medicare

Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations (www.cnbc.com)
2023-8-29 Medicare

Medicare Spending % GDP 2009 vs 2023 Projection till 2055 (imgur.com)
2023-8-27 Medicare GDP

End Predatory Private Medicare “Advantage” Plans Now (www.juancole.com)
2023-8-24 Medicare

Biden officials aim to move ahead on Medicare price negotiation (thehill.com)
2023-8-20 Medicare

Drug makers have tripled the prices of top Medicare drugs (arstechnica.com)
2023-8-16 Medicare

Sen. Whitehouse calls for legislation that will keep Social Security and Medicare solvent (turnto10.com)
2023-8-10 Medicare

US credit downgrade: Another sign of a deepening crisis: “There has been only limited progress in tackling medium-term challenges related to rising Social Security and Medicare costs due to an aging population.” (www.wsws.org)
2023-8-3 Medicare

Let's Celebrate Medicare's 58th Birthday with “Medicare for All” (www.juancole.com)
2023-7-28 Medicare

Drugmakers Are ‘Throwing the Kitchen Sink' to Halt Medicare Price Negotiations (www.nytimes.com)
2023-7-23 Medicare

Psychologists raise alarm six months after Medicare sessions were slashed (www.smh.com.au)
2023-7-23 Medicare

J&J sues in latest bid to halt Medicare drug price negotiations | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
2023-7-19 Medicare

Marjorie Taylor Greene complains about "socialist" Medicare (www.newsweek.com)
2023-7-17 Medicare

Inflation Reduction Act to lower costs of prescription drugs for those on Medicare (www.news5cleveland.com)
2023-7-9 Medicare

The Journey to Medicare's 58th Anniversary (www.juancole.com)
2023-7-7 Medicare

Smart Pharmacy owner accused of defrauding Medicare, Tricare | Gregory Balotin was reported by two whistleblower employees who said he added expensive prescription drugs into pain creams unnecessarily, and then passed the cost to government insurance providers. (www.firstcoastnews.com)
2023-6-27 Medicare Insurance

Despite Repeated Vows Not To, House GOPers Are Again Proposing Social Security And Medicare Cuts (talkingpointsmemo.com)
2023-6-23 Medicare

Republicans Are Bringing Back Their Plan to Gut Social Security and Medicare: A new budget proposal for the 2024 fiscal year makes sweeping cuts. (newrepublic.com)
2023-6-15 Medicare Republican Budget

Merck sues federal government, calling plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices extortion (apnews.com)
2023-6-15 Medicare

Populist? RFK, Jr Doesn't Even Support Medicare for All. (jacobin.com)
2023-6-11 Medicare

Merck sues to block lower Medicare costs Sharon Zhang - Truthout (www.salon.com)
2023-6-8 Medicare

Merck sues Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations (www.cnbc.com)
2023-6-7 Medicare

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