Facing budget issues, Tennessee’s Medicaid program is seeking approval from CMS to cut services to it’s Medicaid members. Cuts would limit benefits for inpatient hospitalizations to $10,000 per year, limit the number of non-emergency hospital and primary care doctor visits to 8, eliminate physical, occupational and speech therapy and eliminate hospice care. If approved, the [...]
Archive for January 14th, 2010
Medicaid Benefit Cuts hit Tennessee’s TennCare Program
Posted in News, Tennessee on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Democratic Leaders Considering Expansion of Medicare Tax to Fund Healthcare Reform
Posted in All, News on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here is the article from the LA Times. Medicare Taxes are currently applied only to “earned income”. This proposal would apply the Medicare Tax to “unearned income”, things like Dividends, Capital Gains, Interest Earned, etc. This expansion of the Medicare Tax would primarily hit two groups: the affluent and Seniors. Seniors are largely exempted from [...]
