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'Covert Propaganda' From Bush Administration Violates Federal Law Says FTCR; What Else They're Not Telling About New Medicare Rx Plan: SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The non-partisan General Accounting Office GAO announced that the Bush Administration had violated federal law by failing to disclose the source of recent advertising about the new Medicare prescription drug law.SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The non-partisan General Accounting Office GAO...; Tags: advertisement, Bush Administration, General Accounting Office, Medicare; Research articles 2004-05-20
Bush Administration Pressures Congress to Reach Deal on Medicare Drug Coverage.: By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; Tags: Bush Administration, Medicare, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2003-11-14
Thousands Demand Money Back from Bush-HMO Scandal; Bush Administration Desperate to Cover Up Secret Medicare Deal, Says Group: The White House today refused to allow President Bush's chief health-policy adviser, Douglas Badger, to testify before Congress about hiding early Medicare cost estimates that are far more costly than lawmakers were told before they voted for it. The WhitThe White House today refused to allow President Bush's chief health-policy...; Tags: Bush Administration, Medicare, White House; Research articles 2004-04-01
Seniors Coalition Praises Bush Administration Medicare Framework; Coalition Members Meet With Bush at White House Medicare Briefing: WASHINGTON, March 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Seniors Coalition, the nation's largest free-market seniors organization with more than four million members, today praised President Bush for unveiling his framework to strengthen and improve Medicare. TSC's naWASHINGTON, March 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Seniors Coalition, the nation's largest free-market seniors...; Tags: Bush, Bush Administration, Medicare, White House; Research articles 2003-03-06

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Retail Pharmacy Lobby May Sue Bush Administration to Stop Medicare Drug Discount Card; PCMA Challenges Lobby to Promise Not to Sue: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the retail pharmacy lobby announcing today in a news report it is considering suing the Bush Administration for a third time to stop a Medicare drug discount card from taking effect, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association PCMA issued a challenge to the retail...; Tags: card, General Accounting Office, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, pharmacy; Research articles 2003-12-04

Alliance for Retired Americans Strongly Opposes Republican Effort to Privatize Medicare: WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Edward F. Coyle, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on the Republican effort to privatize Medicare: The Alliance for Retired Americans categorically opposes the proposed Medicare bill being touted by Republican leaders on Capitol Hill. ...; Tags: alliance, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, Republican, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2003-11-17
Bush administration's Medicare fraud: "The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has been ordered by the Government Accountability Office [GAO] to recover the salary paid former Medicare administrator Thomas A. Scully, because he ordered a staff member to withhold information about the costs of the new Medicare bill from Congress," reported the Medical...; Tags: fraud, General Accounting Office, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Research articles 2004-10-04
Commentary: Beware of legislation to provide Medicare seniors with: The American Association of Retired Persons has strongly opposed the House and Senate versions of legislation to provide Medicare seniors with prescription drug coverage. Thank goodness AARP has alerted its 35.5 million members, the U.S. Congress, the Bush administration and the general public to the outrageous Medicare farce now seeking...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2003-08-22
Commentary: Beware of legislation to provide Medicare seniors with: The American Association of Retired Persons has strongly opposed the House and Senate versions of legislation to provide Medicare seniors with prescription drug coverage. Thank goodness AARP has alerted its 35.5 million members, the U.S. Congress, the Bush administration and the general public to the outrageous Medicare farce now seeking...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2003-08-22
Pension Crisis in the United States - and the Rest of the Defined Benefit World: Retirement issues have drawn significant attention in the United States over the past year. Social Security and Medicare reform are high on the Bush administration's agenda, highlighting weaknesses in the current social retirement system. The Bush administration and the US Congress have proposed tighter pension funding regulations, intended to strengthen...; Tags: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Benefit, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Bush Administration, Payroll Solutions; White papers 2005-09-01
Bush administration's '05 budget slashes money for parks: The Bush administration's proposed budget, sent to Congress on February 2, has been under development for more than a year. But the real challenges lie ahead, as closer analysis of recently passed items such as Medicare reform including some prescription drug benefits and near-term proposals such as reauthorization of surface...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, National Park Service, Transportation; Research articles 2004-03-01
Medicare payments to doctors could be cut: WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials say they expect to cut Medicare payments to doctors by 4.2 percent next year unless Congress passes legislation to reduce or eliminate the cut. In a proposed rule to be published on Friday, the administration says the cut is required by the...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2003-08-12
Humana Presses Its (Medicare) Advantage: Unlike its health-insurance competitor WellPoint, which looks to be ceding its turf in the management of government-sponsored health plans as quickly as it can, Humana remains heavily dependent on managing Medicare and Medicaid plans that account for close to 70 percent of its total membership. And it has a new...; Tags: Medicare, Premium, Benefit, Humana Inc., Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-10-29
Medicare cost estimates are no shock to some: WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has angered Republicans and Democrats in Congress by withholding higher cost estimates during last year's debate on legislation overhauling Medicare. But Congress had plenty of warnings that its 10-year, $395 billion price tag was too low. Research institutes run by conservatives and moderate Democrats...; Tags: Democrat, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, Republican, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2004-03-19
Bush's Budget Director Calls Medicare 'Broken,' Says It Endangers Patients.: By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 5--WASHINGTON--Mitch Daniels, President Bush's budget director, described the Medicare system as "broken" yesterday and argued that it "endangers patients," unusually blunt remarks about the popular program. Briefing reporters...; Tags: Boston Globe, Bush, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, patient; Research articles 2002-02-05
GOP rejects Demos' call to revisit Medicare bill: WASHINGTON -- The White House and congressional Republicans Saturday rejected Democratic demands that Congress reconsider the landmark Medicare prescription legislation approved last year. The call for revisiting the legislation followed statements by Richard S. Foster, the top financial analyst for Medicare, that Bush administration officials ordered him to...; Tags: administration, Bush, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, Republican, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2004-03-14
Agency moves to delay Medicare fee cut: WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more time to block a scheduled 10.6 percent fee cut. The move by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doesn't block the cut, scheduled to...; Tags: agency, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, payment, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-07-01
Bush Budget Represents 'Double Whammy' Hit on U.S. Seniors' Medicare- Financed Nursing Facility Care: To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Susan Feeney of the American Health Care Association, +1- 202-898-6333 FY 2009 Budget Blueprint 'Most Unreasonable, Most Unrealistic' of Entire White House Tenure WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reacting to the formal unveiling of the Bush Administration's FY 2009 budget plan, the American Health Care...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, White House; Research articles 2008-02-04
Is History Ready to Repeat Itself?: Prepare for Medicare spending cuts.Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the Balanced Budget Act BBA of 1997. This year many health provider groups also expect the Bush administration and Congress to make another run at substantive Medicare and Medicaid spending cuts as part of a major budget deficit reduction...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, hospital, Medicaid, Medicare, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2006-09-01
Bush increases estimate on Medicare overhaul: WASHINGTON -- President Bush's new budget projects the Medicare overhaul he just signed will be one-third more costly than estimated and this year's federal deficit will surge past a half trillion dollars for the first time, administration and congressional officials said Thursday. The White House will estimate...; Tags: Bush, Congressional Budget Office, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, White House; Research articles 2004-01-30