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AMAC weighs in on the criticality of Medicare oversight improvements
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) has issued a Policy Paper underscoring the importance of structural reforms within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Systemic improvements, AMAC noted, are vital to enabling Medicare to “more effectively and…
Social Security Ups Disability Safeguards
The Social Security Administration is expanding a program nationally to help bar criminals from controlling benefits on behalf of individuals with disabilities and the elderly. The program originally launched as a pilot in the Philadelphia-area in June 2012 in the wake…
White House says Social Security cuts not in budget, but still on the table
The White House released its official budget Tuesday, after leaking the news a few weeks ago that it would not include the chained CPI, those not so clandestine cuts to Social Security benefits. Progressives have been celebrating that victory since. But the…
Efforts to cut federal budget keep running into roadblocks
The budget gurus in Congress have failed for years to find a grand bargain to reduce the government’s long-term debt, so this year they decided to go small. Just 1 percentage point would be shaved from the annual cost-of-living increase…
Details of President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget
President Barack Obama will send Congress his fiscal 2015 budget request on Tuesday, and lawmakers will promptly ignore it. But the annual ritual will highlight his policy priorities for the coming year and serve as a Democratic Party manifesto as…
Obama budget will seek record funding for new doctors
President Obama will propose boosting the National Health Services Corps from 8,900 a year to 15,000 a year over the next five years, as well as spending $5.23 billion to train 13,000 primary care residents over the next 10 years,…
The Act 2 Column: The myRA idea? Starting a savings habit
Just in case you thought there were not enough retirement accounts to choose from, along comes President Barack Obama’s latest entry in the crowded category. His “myRA” (rhymes with IRA and looks like a misstyped woman’s name) is supposed to…
How the American people would fix Social Security
For some time now it has been known that America’s Social Security program is in trouble. According to the Social Security trustees, if no steps are taken, its trust fund will be exhausted in 2033, and after that the program will only…
Webcast will advise college seniors, young workers on saving for retirement
The U.S. Department of Labor will host a webcast for college seniors and young workers on paying down student loans, determining a budget, managing credit and saving for retirement. “Take Charge of Your Financial Future” will be held from 1…
CMS Medicare Home Healthcare – AMAC, Inc.
On behalf of our 1.1 million members, AMAC sent a letter to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Marilyn Tavenner, to express our deep concern for the beneficiaries and providers of Medicare home healthcare services. …