Medicare

Latest News

HNR: Premium Assistance for Low-Income Seniors Awaits President's Signature (10/9/08)
HNR: Medicare Improvements Become Law (7/21/08)
HNR: House Examines Medicare Advantage Program (6/29/07)
HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06)
WashPost: Millions Not Joining Medicare Drug Plan - Poor Seniors Miss Out on Coverage (2/21/06)
HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CTJ: Health Care Reform Financing Options: Make the Medicare Tax a More Progressive Tax that Wealthy Investors Pay Just Like Everyone Else (7/7/09) (State-by-State Figures in Appendix)
Kaiser Family Foundation: Health Care on a Budget: an Analysis of Spending by Medicare Households (February 2009)
Kaiser Family Foundation: Revisiting 'Skin in the Game' Among Medicare Beneficiaries: an Updated Analysis of the Increasing Financial Burden of Health Care Spending from 1997 to 2005 (February 2009)
Families: Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (November 2008)

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Government Resources

Summary and Status of Public Law 109-171 - formerly S. 1932/H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (signed into law 2/8/06) This law makes cuts to Medicare
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
GAO: Accuracy of Responses for 1-800-MEDICARE Help Line Should Be Improved (December 2004)
JEC: Rising Health Care Costs Undermine Social Security COLA Adjustment (July 2004)
PL 108-173 Medicare Rx Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (12/8/03)

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