Tag: Medicare
Retirees traveling check Medicare coverage to avoid costly surprises
Tom Merton | Getty ImagesIf you're a retiree on Medicare and feel the itch to travel, be sure you know whether your insurance plan can go with you.Whe [...]
Agency can expand birth control access under Medicaid if Roe v. Wade is overturned
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during her nomination hearing to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare &am [...]
Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds
Every year, tens of thousands of people enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans are denied necessary care that should be covered under the progra [...]
These are the best and worst U.S. places to die, report shows
Your end-of-life experience may be very different depending on where you live, according to a Policygenius report that ranks the country's best and wo [...]
Medicare Will Soon Provide Free At-Home Coronavirus Tests
Medicare, which covers roughly 60 million Americans, will provide free over-the-counter rapid coronavirus tests beginning in the spring, according to [...]
How to get free at-home Covid tests with your health insurance
luza studios | E+ | Getty ImagesPrivate health insurers are rolling out their procedures for people to get their at-home Covid tests at little to no c [...]
Americans should soon be able to get free at-home Covid tests
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty ImagesWho can get the free tests?The White House says that the 150 million Americans who have private health insuran [...]
This may finally be the year Congress lets Medicare negotiate drug prices
Democrats in Congress have managed to revive a prescription drug reform proposal that would allow the party to finally deliver on a campaign pro [...]
The 3 big ways Democrats’ social plan would expand health coverage
President Joe Biden on Oct. 29, 2021 in Rome, Italy.Antonio Masiello | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesInsurance subsidiesThe measure would expand [...]
What will end up in Democrats’ Build Back Better budget bill? Medicare, climate, and child tax credit policies are at stake.
Democrats are pretty optimistic about their budget reconciliation bill, but they’re not quite at an agreement.
“I do think I’ll get a deal,” Pr [...]
Why Democrats’ Medicare and health care bill ideas are shrinking — and drug prices may not
Democratic leaders seem to be winnowing their health care plans for this Congress around one clear goal: filling the holes in Obamacare.
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The Build Back Better Act’s plan on drug prices and Medicare, explained
Congress’s ambitious plans to expand health coverage are crashing up against one of the great questions in health policy: Can they force the pha [...]
Medicare Expansion Clashes With Health Care for the Poor as Budget Bill Shrinks
WASHINGTON — Democrats are facing tough moral and political decisions over how to pursue their century-old dream of universal health care now that [...]
Why Democrats want to boost Medicare benefits in their budget reconciliation bill
Medicare is one of America’s flagship government programs, immensely popular with the public, a critical safety net for people over 65 — and it [...]
Democrats wish to increase Medicare. Listed here are the protection gaps to know
Hero Pictures | Getty PicturesChances are you'll know that when you attain age 65, you are eligible for Medicare. What surprises many individuals, [...]