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Your Employer's Drug Plan Versus the New Medicare Benefit
If it hasn't happened already, you will soon be inundated with information about the new Medicare drug benefit, whic...
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Get Help Paying for the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
The countdown to the new Medicare prescription drug benefit has begun. In January 2006, Medicare will begin providin...
Read moreNew Medicare Drug Law Puts Lowest-Income Elderly at Risk
A little-noticed provision of the new Medicare drug law will cause serious '” and perhaps irreparable '” harm to many ...
Read moreAdvocate Suggests Expanding Medicare to Cover All Hurricane Refugees
Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center, a national consumer service group, issued a statement call...
Read moreCMS Eases Medicaid Procedures for Victims of Katrina
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it is easing some normal operating procedure...
Read moreHurricane Katrina Now Affecting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security Legislation
Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), says that $10 billion in cuts to Medicaid requested by the Bush admini...
Read moreNew Online Information About the Medicare Drug Benefit Available
The new Medicare drug benefit takes effect January 1. Insurers can begin marketing their prescription drug plans on...
Read moreElderLawAnswers Adds Medicare Drug Benefit Checklist
Starting October 1, 2005, companies began marketing Medicare drug plans to recipients who wish to sign up for the ne...
Read moreThe New Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
This free booklet from AARP provides a thorough overview of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit that will go into effect on January 1, 2006.
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