Condo Owners Turning to Aegis of Bellevue
Thursday, 11. March 2010
Condo Owners Turning to Aegis of Bellevue
Knee Replacement in Elderly Patients Shown to Improve Balance
Thursday, 11. March 2010
Multiple benefits to surgery reported for patients with advanced osteoarthritis
President Announces Plans To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud
Thursday, 11. March 2010
The Boston Globe: “President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’ll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. … Obama’s anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political middle.” “Waste and fraud are pervasive problems for Medicare and Medicaid. …
Senate Poised To Pass COBRA Subsidy Extension, Medicare ‘Doc Fix’
Thursday, 11. March 2010
The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a jobs bill that would extend the COBRA subsidy program and Medicaid funding for states and prevent a Medicare reimbursement cut for doctors. The Associated Press: The bill “extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed through December. It would add $132 billion to the budget deficit over the next year and a half. …
States’ Legislative Health Initiatives Stall
Thursday, 11. March 2010
The Boston Globe: “A group of Massachusetts mayors, fed up with what they say is legislative inaction on skyrocketing municipal health care costs, has launched a ballot initiative for 2012 aimed at giving cities and towns more flexibility in reducing expensive benefits for employees, retirees, and elected officials” (Murphy, 3/10)…
Politicians Not Doing Enough To Improve Care For Older People, UK
Thursday, 11. March 2010
Sixty per cent of people think politicians are not doing enough to improve care for older people according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. The poll also found that eight out of ten adults believe care reform is among the most important issues in the forthcoming election…
Age Concern And Help The Aged’s Response To Today’s Care Summit, UK
Thursday, 11. March 2010
Following Age Concern and Help the Aged’s care summit, Andrew Harrop, Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said: ‘Our care summit did exactly what it set out to do. It provided all three main political parties the neutral platform that was needed to re-open dialogue about reforming the current care and support system…
Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: High Cholesterol, Diabetes Lead Drug Spending For The Elderly
Thursday, 11. March 2010
Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 – about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest AHRQ News and Numbers…
RetireSafe Urges All Seniors to Call on Congress to Save Physician Hospitals’ Quality Care for Medicare Patients
Wednesday, 10. March 2010
Today RetireSafe, representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, urged seniors nationwide to call on Congress to save high-quality physician hospitals from the restrictive health care reform language now pending in Congress. House …
Governor’s Budget Plan Falls Short of Fixing Illinois’ Financial Crisis
Wednesday, 10. March 2010
Statement from AARP Illinois Senior Manager for Advocacy Nancy Nelson