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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Saving the Medicare!

It is time for the American citizens to pay more attention to the Medicare Program and President Obama is trying to change this, how? making cuts and reducing payments. It is necessary understand that a lot of people use this resource because they cannot afford to pay for medicines or treatments, we need to show solidarity and do not start arguing about this small changes. President Obama will increase charges and premium to the wealthy people, it was already time to do this. Obama think in the people who needs support, I am not saying that he only supports that people, but they offer them more help than anyone else, nowadays. According to CNN Money Website, this small changes, cuts, and increases will save approximately 255 billion dollars.

To get more information about this, click here.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Reducing costs to Medicare.


Obama is keeping his word and he reduce the costs of Medicare. This will benefit to every people who have medicare, but it will be more helpful to seniors. According to the Bloomberg website 50 million have been benefited from this reduction. This also led to reduce 2.2% in government payments to Medicare Advantage plans offered by some companies and the biggest U.S. health insurer: UnitedHealth Group Inc.

To read more information about this visit the Bloomberg Website.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Taxes and ObamaCare

Everybody knows that ObamaCare is runned by the Taxes. This program is getting more and more strong that we think, therefore, the government requires to make some buudget cuts from here, some other from over there, and increase taxes. This situation is kind of tricky, because some people do not use medicare and they don't want to pay for it, but someday they may need that help. According to SmartMoney Website the taxes will increase to be able to pay for this service, but it will depend also the economic situation of the people. It is important for the United State people to know how the taxes work and how they are implemented in the programs. Simply knowing the fact that the tax for Medicare on salary is 2.9% where the employee salary paid the half and the employer the other half is a huge progress, because people will be able to be more informed about this and they will be more capable to know that if they are self-employed they will have to pay the 2.9%. It is important to know about how we as a society can help other people even if is through money.

To get more information and statistics about this issue visit the SmartMoney Website.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Medicare and its background!

According to the Medicare Website, this program is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Medicare Program is paid by two trust fund "Hospital Insurance Trust Fund" and "Suplementary Medical Insurance." If you want to know more information about how this work you can visit the Medicare Website.
This Website also provide with contact information if the people have some questions. To get this information click here.
The Medicare program was authorized  by title XVIII of the Social Security Act, offering health insurance to almost all Americans age 65 or older, on July 1, 1966, according to the  National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.