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• Canada Goes To Pot

  Published: September 2, 2007, 8:21 am

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Health Care, Drug Wars, Drugs, Afghanistan, Marijuana, Pot, Libertarian, Law Order, Medicare, Tony Clement, Fraser Institute, Ron Paul

  and more off-site about:medicare, healthcare, Canada, Afghanistan, Ron Paul, war on drugs,marijuana,cannabis,pot,Stephen Harper,Tony Clement,drug war, medical

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• California Congressman: Fix Social Security and Medicare Before Global Warming

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:37 am

  Tags: Aids, Environment, Global Warming, Medicaid, Medicare, Poverty, Social Security, Weather

  programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid rather than to solve global warming. I don't imagine Katie, Charlie, and Brian will be doing a segment on this tonight, do you? Regardless, Rep. John Campbell (R-California) published a must-read op-ed Tuesday entitled "Global Warming Heresy" (emphasis added throughout): The

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• Pay Back II

  Published: September 8, 2007, 8:19 am

  Tags: Mental Health, Depression, Psychology, Homeless, Alberta, Medicare, Calgary

  (P3) of services. More Medicare reform through the back door."The Alberta Mental Health Board is a unique structure, across the country, in terms of the way they look at mental health policy without actually delivering services. I think we can learn a lot from that," Kirby said Friday.And of course since the government doesn't deliver

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• Hillary’s Healthcare Plan Is For Lemmings

  Published: September 28, 2007, 2:44 pm

  Tags: Hillary Clinton, 2008 Presidential Election, Editorials Opinion, Commentary, Clinton, Commentary, Editorial, Government, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Hillary, Hospitals, Insurance, Medicare, Newyork, Taxes

  hospitals, insurance, medicare, newyork,

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• Republicans in Disarray, Blame Democrats For Their Disarray

  Published: October 2, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Schip, Roy Blunt, Healthcare, Medicare, Republicans

  tax increase with the Medicare Advantage cuts, which would provide more than $150 billion over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. So, let’s get this straight.  The House Republicans opposed ANY expansion of SCHIP, putting Bush and the House Republicans on the wrong side of public opinion.

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• Means Test Sought for Medicare Drug Plan

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Means, Test, Sought, For, Medicare, Drug, Plan, George W Bush, Scott Lilly, Ron Pollack, The White House, Aarp, Christopher Lee, Jim Cooper, John Ensign, John Rother, Center For American Progress, Centers For Medicare Medicaid Services, Families Usa

  The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with incomes over about $80,000 a year, administration officials said yesterday.

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• Means Test Sought for Medicare Drug Plan

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Means, Test, Sought, For, Medicare, Drug, Plan, George W Bush, Scott Lilly, Ron Pollack, The White House, Aarp, Christopher Lee, Jim Cooper, John Ensign, John Rother, Center For American Progress, Centers For Medicare Medicaid Services, Families Usa

  The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with incomes over about $80,000 a year, administration officials said yesterday.

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• Means Test Sought for Medicare Drug Plan

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Means, Test, Sought, For, Medicare, Drug, Plan, George W Bush, Scott Lilly, Ron Pollack, The White House, Aarp, Christopher Lee, Jim Cooper, John Ensign, John Rother, Center For American Progress, Centers For Medicare Medicaid Services, Families Usa

  The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with incomes over about $80,000 a year, administration officials said yesterday.

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• Stephen Harper's Open Agenda And What It Means for Autism in Canada

  Published: October 7, 2007, 1:19 pm

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Throne Speech, National Autism Symposium, National Autism Strategy, Autism Disorder, Autism Advocacy, Federal Spending, Aba In Medicare Now

  will be the dismantling of medicare, a program which has served Canadians across Canada so well for generations. Medicare coverage of ABA for autism? Not under Harper rule. It is naive to think otherwise.The tool Harper will use to dismantle the strong federal government is simple. He will introduce plans to formally limit Ottawa's power

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• Medicare Drug Plan Is Miserable Failure

  Published: October 8, 2007, 1:05 am

  Tags: Medicare, Private Insurance, Drug Plan

  time it's the privitized Medicare drug program. Audits of the program show it is having many problems.Democrats tried to keep the program simple. They wanted the government to provide the drug program through Medicare, after negotiating lower drug prices with the drug companies. But that made far too much sense for Republicans, and probably

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• Medicare modernization act did not change chemotherapy as feared

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Health, Cancer Care, Cancer Patients, Chemotherapy, Medicare System

  the enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), despite the act's significant reduction in government reimbursement to oncologists, according to a new study led by researchers in the Duke Clinical Research Institute

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• Patients perceived cancer care unaffected by lower Medicare reimbursements

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:24 am

  Tags: Health, Cancer, Cancer Care, Medicare System

  Patients perceive no significant change in the quality of care for cancer since the United States' government passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) according to a study published in the November 15, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

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• Believe Hillary's Promises? You Can't Fix Stupid

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Make Overs, Editorials Opinion, Hillary Lies, Commentary, Clinton, Commentary, Democratic, Democrats, Healthcare, Hillary, Medicaid, Medicare, Republicans

  a spending problem with Medicare and Medicaid and a large budget deficit – and Hillary wants to give every baby born in this country a government paid savings account just for being born. Are people really too naïve to even wonder where the money will come from? Oh yeah, as always, just take it from the rich again, and roll back

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• Two Hours, Nine Candidates, and Almost Nothing New

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Two, Hours, Nine, Candidates, Almost, Nothing, New, Fred Thompson Politician, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, John Mccain, Rudolph Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Jon Stewart, Internal Revenue Service, Medicare, The Daily Show, United States

  To hear it from the Republican presidential hopefuls, the only way for the party to win back the trust of voters on economic issues is to start telling the truth.

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• Elderly Medicare, Medicaid patients not receiving quality care

  Published: October 17, 2007, 4:43 pm

  Tags: Health, Elderly Health, Elderly Patients, Medicaid Services, Medicare Patients

  If the care received by vulnerable older people concurrently enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid was evaluated on a grading scale, it would squeak by with a barely passing mark, a new UCLA study has found.

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