| 1 to 10 of 240 | Next | Last |
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), one the state’s squeakiest wheels when it comes to sounding off about nursing home abuses, is accusing the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) of taking a “see no evil, hear no evil” approach in monitoring conditions in state’s more than 1,100 nursing facilities.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 90 percent of people over age 65 will develop cataracts, which annually causes total vision loss in approximately 20 million people, most of whom have little or no access to proper medical care.
“Don’t assume that the existence of Part D means that people aren’t having a difficult time affording their meds,” says Louanne Bakk, an assistant professor in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. “There are certain groups that continue struggling with prescription drug costs regardless of this federal benefit being in place.”
U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson has dismissed a class action lawsuit charging the Social Security Administration (SSA) with discriminating against SSI recipients who are married to a person of the same sex. “The judge got this one wrong,” says Gerald McIntyre, directing attorney at the advocacy group Justice in Aging. “He fundamentally misunderstood [the plaintiffs’] claims, and mistakenly believed that the harm incurred can be corrected through Social Security’s administrative process.”
Just as it has for the past few years, the 2015 Social Security Trustees Report once again sounds a danger warning for federal lawmakers. The report makes clear that Social Security’s Disability Insurance Trust Fund faces “an urgent threat of reserve depletion,” and requires prompt corrective action by lawmakers if sudden reductions or interruptions in benefit payments are to be avoided.
The 2015 Medicare Trustees Report delivers relatively good news as Medicare celebrates 50 years of providing essential health care benefits to older adults. The trustees find that the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is solvent through 2030 -- the same as predicted last year and 13 years longer since passage of the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will modify – but not entirely scrap -- its highly controversial "two-midnight" rule applicable to Medicare beneficiaries who are initially deemed “observation status” when hospitalized.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday (June 25) in King v. Burwell -- a ruling that upholds the legality of healthcare insurance premium subsidies for all Americans -- may not completely quash efforts by opponents of Obamacare to repeal the law, but it certainly lessens any chance they have of seeing the high court derail it.
Among other things, repealing the ACA would increase federal budget deficits by $137 billion over the 2016-2025 period. That estimate takes into account the proposal’s impact on federal revenues and direct (or mandatory) spending.
The parties seek to permanently stop the agency from withholding or otherwise pursuing funds from Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients whose same-sex marriages SSA failed to recognize after the demise of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
| 1 to 10 of 240 | Next | Last |
