Medicare Insurance

http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Publications/HealthIns/HMOsRise.html
Dissatisfaction with HMOs has led some to call for increased regulation of the HMO industry. Government officials express concern for patient protection and access to health care. Yet government action did much to encourage the spread of HMOs’and government action continues to steer people into HMOs.
HMO Act of 1973
Unbeknownst to most, Congress has essentially [...]

I read a previous thread suggesting MediCare, but I am not talking about HEALTH insurance. They only have term life insurance tied to current job, and they need to retire. They have no burial policy, and each is worried about leaving the other with burial expenses and debts. I have seen a few ads online, [...]

HR646 proposes to add coverage for acupuncture to Federal Employees Health Benefit Plans and Medicare.
Do you support insurance coverage for acupuncture? Why do you, or don’t you, support the proposal?
Birdgirl123,
I think legislation like this comes in phases. This is a step along the way. I think this is potentially a huge step in [...]

As baby bloomers retire and Medicare lifts thousand pound gorilla off many people’s back: Do you really want to see government put million pound gorilla back where only words you will hear are monthly premium increases. Declare Medicare a foreign county in need of aid. They can always come up with that cash.

Health care reform
Recently Baucus, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, caused controversy when calling the first Senate meeting of interested parties before the committee to discuss health care reform, which included representatives from pharmaceutical groups, insurance companies, and HMOs and hospital management companies, but did not include representatives from groups calling for single-payer health [...]

I live in Australia and we have a public health system where we don’t pay much or pay nothing. I heard on the news today that this health care system is under pressure due to rising costs and we may have to adopt the US style health care system. How do you cope [...]

Sick Australians are going to have to pay up when Medicare, Australia’s free healthcare system, is forced to close its doors.
In an interview, NSW Health director-general Debora Piccone said that “we are really on the edge of losing the universal healthcare system that this country has.”
Rising costs and an ageing population have sparked concerns [...]