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...larger opening in the Medicare market three years ago. This summer scores of HMOs announced that they are dropping their Medicare policies, leaving nearly 1 million senior citizens who had signed up for them scrambling to find coverage elsewhere, either in other HMOs or by returning to the traditional fee-for-service program. No state was as hard hit as Bush's: more than 200,000 Texas seniors--fully 60% of the total who had moved to private coverage--were abandoned by their HMOs...
...insurance companies claim they cannot make a profit on the amount Medicare reimburses them for coverage, and they are stymied by tens of thousands of pages of rules for providing services under the program. Bush promises to modernize the regulations and the fee structure--he would add $150 billion more to Medicare over 10 years--but has provided little detail on how he would do so. He cites the popular health program for federal employees as a model for the structure he would set up for Medicare, but critics say the experiences of that younger, healthier government work force have...
...while Ashe, who poses nude, has been downloaded 8 million times. (Some people use the Internet for pornography.) On numbers, the Guinness Book of World Records awarded the crown to Ashe. Seems fair, but Margolis countered that her images are available for free, while Ashe's require a subscriber fee. Logically that makes Ashe even more deserving, but nonetheless the Guinness people have indulged Margolis' protestations. Ashe is "Most Downloaded Woman (on a paying basis)," and Margolis is "Most Downloaded Woman (on a cost-free basis)." People who download their photos are very lonely (on every basis...
...PLAN Bush would allow the elderly to stay in traditional fee-for-service Medicare or provide them with a fixed sum of money to pay for private insurance plans, some of which will offer a prescription-drug benefit. How much recipients pay and what benefits they receive depends on the plan they choose...
...larger opening in the Medicare market three years ago. This summer scores of HMOs announced that they are dropping their Medicare policies, leaving nearly 1 million senior citizens who had signed up for them scrambling to find coverage elsewhere, either in other HMOs or by returning to the traditional fee-for-service program. No state was as hard hit as Bush's: more than 200,000 Texas seniors--fully 60% of the total who had moved to private coverage--were abandoned by their HMOs...