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More employers offer disability insurance, employees realize need yet many fail to act
With May being Disability Insurance Awareness Month (DIAM), timely findings from a Prudential report reveal that while 82% of employers report they are offering long-term disability insurance in 2013, up from 74% in 2012, 33% of employees are reporting they…
The retirement-income crisis, in one chart
Call me paranoid, but it seems like the financial-services industry has undertaken a concerted effort to show that the U.S. does not have a retirement-income problem – that most people will have all the money they need in retirement. Indeed,…
House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health Hearing
I am pleased to be here today to discuss our work examining fraud in theMedicare program. n1 We have designated Medicare as a high-risk program since 1990, in part because we found the program’s size and complexity make it vulnerable to fraud, waste,…
The Coming Two-Tier Health System
With the unveiling of the Affordable Care Act’s website, the public experienced a painful reminder of the consequences of the government’s new authority over health care. While millions signed up for insurance, millions of others abruptly lost their existing coverage…
Medicare’s rules meant to help end hospices being paid for drugs not for terminal illnesses
New Medicare guidance taking effect Thursday aims to stop the federal government from paying millions of dollars to hospice organizations and drug insurance plans for the same prescriptions for seniors. But the changes may make it more difficult for dying…
House Gives Government One Year to Fix Veterans Disability Mess
The House on Wednesday approved a spending bill that sends a stiff message to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): Congress wants the VA to eliminate its backlog of thousands of veterans waiting on disability claims by 2015. The disability claims…
Medicare Advisers Say No to Lung Cancer Screening
Annual low-dose CT lung cancer screening for high-risk individuals doesn’t have enough evidence for benefit over harms to be covered by Medicare, an advisory panel concluded. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid national coverage determination panel voted a mean 2.2 on…
New Web Site Launches to Help Veterans Navigate Applying and Appealing for Disability Benefits
InjuredVeterans, a nationwide law firm representing veterans in claims for disability benefits has launched a website — InjuredVeterans.com — to reach men and women who sustained an injury or illness while serving their country during military service, and help them…
IT’S TIME TO DEFY HEALTHCARE MANDATES ISSUED BY BUREAUCRATS
In my 23 years as a practicing physician, I’ve learned that the only thing that matters is the doctor-patient relationship. How we interact and treat our patients is the practice of medicine. I acknowledge that there is a problem with…
What are the sources of retirement income?
Overall, what are the sources of retirement income? The recently released Social Security publication, Income of the Aged Chartbook, 2012, provides this information in charts and tables that are easy to understand. Charts focus on the receipt and shares of income from Social…