Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Elderly find Medicare doctors scarce in Austin
When Sheila McIntire moved to Austin from Cleveland two years ago, she was shocked to call doctor after doctor and get the same message: They weren’t taking new Medicare patients.
“It’s very frightening for elderly people if you come here and have no referrals,” McIntire said.
As days grew to [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Competing claims over Medicaid coverage are blocking some Texans from getting mammograms
WASHINGTON — Texas doctors are turning away poor women who are eligible for digital mammograms because they say the state Medicaid program won’t pay for the procedure, although officials claim the program does.
Texas health officials said in December 2005 that they would use [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2006 by Dig ad veritas
The ultimate drug deal:
The flaws in the Medicare Plan D program didn’t crop up without anyone seeing them coming. They are the expected result of the way Congress designed the program. So ask those who want to serve you how they’ll fix its flaws.The greatest of them arises from a feature inserted to protect drug [...]
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