Word: hmos
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...costs are different from what they were a year ago, but the costs of maintaining Medicare and senior HMOs have been rising precipitously over the past several years,” he said. “There have been quite a large number of these plan closures across...
While Medicare doesn't currently pay for outpatient drugs, it does pay for certain medications dispensed by hospitals and doctors. Government auditors have long singled out Medicare for paying inflated prices compared with what HMOs and retail pharmacy chains pay for the same drugs. An HHS inspector general's report in 2001 said Medicare reimbursements for two dozen drugs "exceeded actual wholesale prices by $761 million a year...
...benefit. Democrats, who also know that a Bush victory on prescription drugs would be politically devastating, are scrambling to stop the $400 billion measure. More important, Democrats oppose the bill's embrace of private-style health care, its failure to rein in pharmaceutical companies and its generous subsidies for HMOs. The House narrowly passed the controversial measure early Saturday morning, 220-215, but only after the vote was held open for nearly three hours so both Republican leaders on the floor and Bush on the phone could browbeat G.O.P. conservatives, angry that the bill didn't contain enough market reforms...
...whatever services you request. This is fabulously expensive and bound to grow more so as the baby boomers retire. Most Republicans and many moderate Democrats want to restrain costs by moving toward a system of managed care--which is what most non-elderly Americans now receive through HMOs and preferred-physician networks. The Medicare bill contains a six-city test of managed care, which would begin in 2010. This tiny experiment is what sent the Democrats up a wall. "We're not going to let seniors be herded into HMOs," Dick Gephardt harrumphed. Their alternative? Well, they don't have...
...drug benefit. Democrats, who also know that a Bush victory on prescription drugs could be politically devastating, scrambled to stop the $400 billion measure. More important, Democrats opposed the bill's embrace of private-style health care, its failure to rein in pharmaceutical companies and its generous subsidies for HMOs. The House narrowly passed the controversial measure early Saturday morning, 220-215, but only after the vote was held open for nearly three hours so both Republican leaders on the floor and Bush on the phone could browbeat G.O.P conservatives, angry that the bill didn't contain enough market reforms...