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Are Medicare Recipients Taking Drugs, or Selling Them?

by francine 10.05.2011

Are poor Medicare recipients drug addicts, or are they selling their drugs on the street?  The stereotype out of the Government Acocunting Office says they are addicts defrauding the government.  Looking at the same study with an open mind, I think it’s just as easy to say they are trying to make ends meet by buying [...]

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You Can Get Your Health Data

by francine 09.26.2011

Here at Health 2.0 there is definitely an air of transformation. Several initiatives that I had been following have come to fruition, or at least to critical mass, among them implementation of EMRs and patient communities. MedHelp now has over 12 million visitors a month, while millions of women annually visit the women’s social health [...]

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Half of Consumers Think Health Care Spending is Wasted

by francine 08.26.2011

We appear to have “bent the curve” in health care spending last year; national health spending grew at a historically unprecedented low of  3.9%. That’s including all national health expenditures — private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and out-of-pocket expenses. You would think this was a good thing, right? But according to Deloitte’s new survey, not [...]

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Dear Seniors: Paul Ryan Wants You Bankrupt First, Then You Can Die

by Karoli 04.14.2011

Here’s an outline of what Paul Ryan wants to do to Medicare: Eligibility Age Increased from age 65 to age 69 1/2. Automatic payment reduction – If Medicare payments exceed prior fiscal years’ payments by 145%, providers automatically paid 1% less Medicare recipients age 55 and older may be covered by current traditional Medicare at [...]

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