by Shared Content | Nov 26, 2022 | Medicare Articles
Eric Harkleroad/KHN /Getty Images/ Unsplash/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Data Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans, with some plans overbilling the government more...
by Shared Content | Nov 25, 2022 | Medicare Articles
If American voters decide to turn the House, Senate, or both chambers of Congress over to Republican control on Nov. 8, Republicans have helpfully begun to outline how they intend to reward those voters. The “rewards” are impactful: by raising the Social Security full...
by Shared Content | Nov 24, 2022 | Medicare Articles
The numbers in parentheses are each state’s rank in 1959, 1990 and 2016. The rise of New York is striking; so is the relative decline of Oklahoma and Kansas, both of which had higher life expectancy than New York as recently as 1990.How does all this bear on...
by Shared Content | Nov 23, 2022 | Medicare Articles
So Republican plans to cut Medicare and Social Security would impose widespread hardship, with some of the worst impacts falling on red-state, noncollege whites — that is, the party’s most loyal base.Why, then, does the party want to do this? We needn’t take claims...
by Shared Content | Nov 22, 2022 | Medicare Articles
WASHINGTON — The Medicare program could easily become solvent if regulators cracked down harder on fraudsters and profiteers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth, said Wednesday....