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Hearing Offers Solutions for Costly Medicare Enrollment Mistakes and Beneficiary Confusion
This week, the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing titled Turning 65: Navigating Critical Decisions to Age Well...
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Health Spending Growth Slowing, More on Pace with Economic Growth
Last month, two health policy non-profits released detailed information and graphs about health spending in the U.S. The Peterson Center...
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Kaiser Family Foundation Introduces a Valuable Tool for Medicare Advocates
In the past several years, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), part of the Centers for Medicare &...
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Senate Barrels Toward a Vote on Their Tax Bill
As Congress moves quickly to send a tax bill to the President before the end of the year, the Senate...
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Medicare Rights Center Identifies Consumer Protections for New Medicare Payment and Delivery Models
This week, the Medicare Rights Center joined with the AARP Public Policy Institute to release a new report, Consumer Protections...
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Understanding Medicare Extenders
As 2017 winds down, there are several smaller pieces of Medicare legislation, often called “Medicare extenders,” that must pass Congress...
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The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act Would Lower Costs and Preserve Care
This week, members of both chambers of Congress introduced a bill that aims to bring down rising drug costs. Representatives...
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Medicare Rights Urges Congress to Support the CHIP Program without Penalizing People with Medicare
Today, the Medicare Rights Center sent a letter to leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce voicing...
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Graham-Cassidy Bill Abandoned in the Senate
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate once again chose to reject a bill that would have caused tens of millions of...
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Leading Medicare Advocates Oppose Graham-Cassidy Bill
Earlier this week, Medicare Rights, in partnership with the Center for Medicare Advocacy, sent a letter to Senate leadership strongly...
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