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	<title>Medicare and More &#187; Healthcare reform</title>
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		<title>Poll: Should people without insurance be denied treatment?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2011/09/14/poll-should-people-without-insurance-be-denied-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a person without health insurance shows up at a hospital with a serious illness, should he get medical treatment he cannot pay for out of his own pocket? This question was posed to Representative Ron Paul during the CNN/Tea Party debate on Monday. Representative Paul said the hospital and government should not pay for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform and Medicare in 2011</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2011/01/18/health-care-reform-and-medicare-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2011/01/18/health-care-reform-and-medicare-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans want to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act which impacts a broad range of medical and health  insurance issues.  Many of the reforms are actually quite popular with the public.  Here are some changes that will affect Medicare beneficiaries in 2011. Medicare will increase payments for primary care services by 10 percent. This increase applies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Will Reward Arizona Advantage Plans</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/26/medicare-will-reward-arizona-advantage-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/26/medicare-will-reward-arizona-advantage-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for Medicare Advantage plans in Arizona!   In what Kaiser Health News called a &#8220;surprising move&#8221;, the Obama administration &#8220;will extend special bonus payments meant to reward top-performing Medicare Advantage plans to those that score only average ratings&#8221;. With most Advantage plans in Arizona rated as average (3 stars), our plans will get additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Deficit Report Recommends Seniors Pay More For Medicare</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/19/new-deficit-report-recommends-seniors-pay-more-for-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/19/new-deficit-report-recommends-seniors-pay-more-for-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit reduction and medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of medicare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Kaiser Health News:  A debt reduction task force that was created by the Bipartisan Policy Center recently made recommendations for reducing government spending. The task force, made up of Republicans and Democrats, targets Medicare as too generous a program for seniors.  I&#8217;ve posted excerpts from the article below. Offering the latest tough-love strategy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking to the Medicare Boss</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/16/talking-to-the-medicare-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/16/talking-to-the-medicare-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I participated in a conference call with the Head of CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) and I got to ask a question as well as offer some advice about the Medicare.gov Plan Finder. First, I pointed out to the top administrator of Medicare, Dr. Don Berwick, and his assistants on the call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens To Health Care Reform Now?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/05/what-happen-to-health-care-reform-now/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/11/05/what-happen-to-health-care-reform-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medicare changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repeal health care reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans say they will repeal or refuse to fund the Affordable Care Act (&#8220;Obamacare&#8221;). The very large bill involved many areas of health care reform, from Medicare pilot programs to limiting the profits of health insurance companies to allowing everyone to get insurance, even if they have pre-existing conditions.  Maggie Mahar writes about this in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Medicare?</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/10/28/the-future-of-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/10/28/the-future-of-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has given a lot of thought to the future of Medicare and how this program, which takes up 13% of the federal budget, should be shaped in the future.  Ryan is one of the Republican &#8220;Young Guns&#8221; who will take leadership roles on key committees if their party becomes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Begins Today</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/09/23/health-care-reform-begins-today/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/09/23/health-care-reform-begins-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, September 23rd, 2010, is the day on which parts of the Affordable Care Act take effect.  As of today: Children up to age 26 can be kept on their parent&#8217;s employer health insurance. In Massachusetts this has been the law since Mitt Romney reformed health insurance there and required everyone to get covered. Parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Waiting on UnitedHealthcare; Another Un-insurable Woman; Health Care Reform Takes Effect</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/09/22/still-waiting-on-unitedhealthcare-more-un-insurables-health-care-reform-takes-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/09/22/still-waiting-on-unitedhealthcare-more-un-insurables-health-care-reform-takes-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you blog about big companies, they actually read it.  A UnitedHealthcare representative called me last week to say she had been told to look into Terry&#8217;s situation, the woman about whom I wrote last week. You can see that post here:  UnitedHealthcare: Can they get away with that?  Terry has a Pacificare health insurance policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesse Kelly: Misinformed on Medicare Advantage</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/09/10/jesse-kelly-misinformed-on-medicare-advantage/</link>
		<comments>http://tucsoncitizen.com/medicare/2010/09/10/jesse-kelly-misinformed-on-medicare-advantage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Early</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Giffords cut $500 billion from Medicare and Giffords eliminated Medicare Advantage, and now she is lying about&#8230;..&#8221; This quote from Jesse Kelly appeared in today&#8217;s Arizona Daily Star and I felt compelled to correct the Republican candidate for Congress. Where did Jesse Kelly hear that Medicare Advantage is being eliminated? It is not. In fact, [...]]]></description>
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