Posts Tagged ‘Medicaid Services’
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week released its annual report on national health care expenditures, for 2008, and at a glance the news looked good. Health care spending in 2008 increased 4.4 percent while health insurance premiums grew just 3.1 percent, the slowest rate of increase found in many years. Despite the declining growth in spending, the rate of increase was nearly double growth in the GDP, a key measure of the overall economy.
The results show that the growth rate in health care spending is not sustainable. While Congress wrestles with how to combine the Senate and House health care reform bills into one single bill that can pass both chambers, the business community and others continue to try to persuade Congress that health care reform needs to include a long-term strategy, currently missing, to reduce the growth of health care costs.
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Related Issues Concerning Medicare and Medicaid Services.
- 5 Ways to Lower Your Costs During the Coverage Gap(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- Are You Paying the Right Amount for Your Prescriptions?(Food and Drug Administration) – PDF
- e-Prescribing(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- Four Ways to Help Lower Your Medicare Prescription Drug Costs(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- Getting Medicare and Prescription Drugs in a Disaster or Emergency Area(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Costs(Social Security Administration)
- How Medicare Covers Self-Administered Drugs Given in Hospital Outpatient Settings(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- Information for Veterans About the Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Medicare Part D)(Dept. of Veterans Affairs)
- Medicare Part D and Cancer Patients(American Cancer Society)
- Prescription Drug Coverage – Help Is Here(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- Quick Facts about Medicare’s Coverage for Prescription Drugs for People Who Have Prescription Coverage from an Employer or Union(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- Quick Facts about Medicare’s Prescription Drug Coverage for People in a Medicare Advantage Plan or Medicare Cost Plan with Prescription Drug Coverage(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- What Drugs Do Medicare Drug Plans Cover?(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF
- What You Need to Know about Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage if You Have a Medigap Policy(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) – PDF