Enrollment in its Medicare Advantage plans has more than doubled over the same period, from 2.99 million in 2014 to 7.76 million. While the growth in Medicare Advantage slowed this year, UnitedHealth, along with Humana and CVS/Aetna, have captured 86% of new enrollees in the privatized ...
but what we pay into— Social Security and Medicare—are entitlements? Why aren’t the media—the journalists we do the reporting—-addressing this jargon as a false narrative? Meanwhile, since the 1960s, we’ve been sending foreign aid to dictators. The rationale is that democracy will come...
“Billions in Claims for Catheters Suggest Medicare Billing Scam.” The New York Times (Saturday, February 10, 2024): A1 & A15. (Note: ellipses, and bracketed years, added.) (Note: the online version of the story has the date Feb. 9, 2024, and has the title “Staggering Rise in ...
“I was giving birth to our son, and instead of holding my hand and supporting me and hugging me, he was sitting in the corner entering the time between my contractions into a spreadsheet,” says Lisa Betts-LaCroix. The concept of self-tracking dates back centuries. Modern body hackers are...
died today, aged 100. He is most associated in Americans’ mind with raging inflation (unfairly, I think, since it was Lyndon Johnson who indulged in a massive expansion of both the welfare state (Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, taxpayer-funding housing) and the U.S. role in the Vietnam...
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change in direction. I watch these figures every day, and they constantly get worse. The balance of payments keeps growing exponentially. Public debt keeps growing exponentially. The Medicare / Medicaid / Social Security packages are growing out of control, and Washington is doing nothing about it...
Shingrix. Our office does not carry the vaccine, which costs $100 at a local pharmacy and Medicare Part A or Part B do not cover this. Patients on whom taxpayers are spending $10,000 or more annually balk at the idea of paying $100 dollars to cut their risk of getting shingles from ...
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The solvency of Social Security and Medicare depends entirely on NOT building a Berlin Wall between a ready and hungry labor pool, and the millions of arduous, low-paying jobs which abound in the U.S. There is a long-term trend which I am familar with in my own family. My stepmother ...