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...their costs exceed $2,830 (in 2010), and doesn't kick back in until they spend $4,550 out of pocket. This provision, which would cost the federal government about $20 billion over 10 years, gradually closes the gap beginning in 2011, so Medicare Part D recipients will eventually pay no more than 25% co-insurance for name-brand drugs. In 2010, Medicare Part D enrollees who reach the gap will receive $250 rebate checks...
...Temporarily increase payments to primary care providers who care for Medicaid payments. Democratic reform would add some 15 million people to the Medicaid rolls, and critics have said this will strain doctors already buckling under Medicaid reimbursement rates, which are substantially lower than what private insurance pays. In 2013 and 2014, this provision would pay primary care providers the same reimbursement rates as Medicare, which falls in between Medicaid payment rates and private insurance. The House package would also increase federal funding to states for Medicaid. (See what health care reform really means...
...Increase penalties for larger employers who do not offer health insurance and have at least one employee who qualifies for federal subsidies. Companies with more than 50 employees would have to pay an annual $2,000 penalty for each worker at the firm, even if only one qualified for subsidies. (Penalties assessed for the first 30 workers would be waived, however...
...suicide, parents feel there is no friend or relative able or trustworthy enough to care for the children. "In Hong Kong, it's common not to know neighbors who have been beside you for 10 years," says researcher Yip. While social and mental-health workers have been asked to pay close attention to depressed parents of small children, professional help remains thin on the ground in Hong Kong and is no substitute for a strong personal-support network. "It is packed here," says Yip of a city whose population density, at its highest, exceeds 50,000 per sq km. "Physically...
...with increasing regularity in the past two weeks, prompting prosecutors in Moscow to go into damage-control mode. In a statement released March 17, the prosecutor general's office said it had already forced private contractors in Sochi to shell out 1.2 million rubles (about $40,000) in back pay. But Pechorin says he hasn't seen any of the back pay yet, and neither have any of the workers he knows...