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Dennis Byron
Dennis Byron is a former SHIP volunteer certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to answer questions about Medicare. He's also a Medicare subscriber.
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Ultra-Left-Wing Medicare Rights Center Puts Out More Lies about Medicare Reform
The ultra-left-wing Medicare Rights Center, a front group for the Democratic Party, on May 15 outlined proposals to "eliminate wasteful spending in Medicare and promote the delivery of high value, affordable health care." Some are warmed-over Obama-administration ideas, some of which will actually make life worse for the low income... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at theabcsofmedicare
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Seniors Like Medicare Part D Preferred Pharmacy Plans, Says Non-Preferred Pharmacists
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It's one of the oddest PR campaigns I've ever seen. The local independent pharmacist lobby is spending a lot of effort to tell me that their arch enemies -- the national chain druggists -- are doing a great job by partnering up with selected Part D drug plans. Or at... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at theabcsofmedicare
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Another Day, More Insurance Agents Lying about Medicare to Screw Seniors
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Sometimes I think it's just ignorance about Medicare. And other times I think it is purposeful deceit by insurance agents to try to get seniors to pay more than they have to for Medicare supplement insurance. But whatever, it happens day after day, week after week, and it can't be... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at theabcsofmedicare
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What Medicare Gives with One Hand, It Takes Away with the Other (Or If I Only Still Had a Dog, and the Dog Bit Me...)
The Medicare bureaucracy has been beating itself on the chest recently about all the preventive tests it covers, many for free it claims. You now get the Introduction to Medicare physical thanks to George Bush and a screening for drpression thanks to Barack Obama (that's fitting, isn't it?). But it... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at theabcsofmedicare
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Worst Medicare Advice You'll Ever Get from an Insurance Agent--Part 1
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I am trying to keep up with the collosally bad information concerning Medicare on the Internet. The information comes from second-string journalists who don't know any better, from journalists for big-city newspapers with their left-wing political agenda, from hapless good-goverment wonks (goo goos) in think tanks and academia, and mostly... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at theabcsofmedicare
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Don't Believe Anything You Read on the Internet about Medicare
I could post full time on all the errors that appear on the Internet concerning signing up for Medicare, using Medicare or Medicare reform. As I said recently, the worst of the bad Medicare information seems to come from insurance salespeople trying to sell you something for which they get... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at theabcsofmedicare
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WaPo Publishes Worst Piece of Medicare Journalism Ever
Eclipsing a record1 that the Washington Post (WaPo) itself had already held, on May 12, 2013 WaPo published the worst piece of Medicare journalism ever. WaPo has exposed the huge problem that doctors are abusing 12-year-olds on Medicare Part D. As an indication of how bad this WaPo article is,... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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What's Right with the Left-Wing's Medicare Essential Medicare Reform
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I have a lot of problems with the left-wing Commonwealth Fund's Medicare Essential proposal. But in fairness, before criticizing something, I believe I should look for some of its redeeming features. To do so, I needed to compare Essential against its baseline (which is an imaginary combination of Medicare Parts... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Elite Far-Left Academics Claim Medicare Reform Will Kick Seniors Off Medicare
Boy, what's got into the water in the ivory towers this week. Yesterday we saw the far-left-wing Commonwealth Fund and a bunch of elite Harvaridans separately and pompously carrying on about Medicare reforms that seemed to have no basis in the real world. Today here is more goo-goo drivel, this... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Elite Academics Want to Screw Up Your Medicare But Won't Tell You How Unless You Pay Them
Elite academics -- some of whom were responsible for screwing up Massachusetts' healthcare market -- are now trying to do it to Medicare. And surprisingly there is a rash of paper on the subject from these goo goos this week, apparently forced to publish something before they jet off to... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Beware of insurancelibary.com and Other Insurance-Agent Websites That Lie about Medicare
Senior citizens can be seriously harmed by some of the bad Medicare information circulating on the Internet. The bad sources include journalists, academics, politicians, AARP, state governments, and others. But the worst source for Medicare advice is an insurance agent and the worst of the bad insurance-agent advice I've seen... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Obama Drops Medicare "Death Panel" For Now
According to Bloomberg on April 30, the Obama administration will not create Medicare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), better known as the Obamacare "death panel," at this time. This seems to be a Bloomberg interpretation. More accurately put, according to the acting Medicare actuary, Medicare spending has increased at such... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Obamacare Architect Embraces Vouchers for Medicare Reform
Peter Orzag, one of the many self-proclaimed architects of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amened (better known as Obamacare), is apparently embracing Ryancare Medicare reform. In his April 30 column on Bloomberg, Orzag supports what appears to be a voucher program for Medicare. Orzag never mentions... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Hate-filled Democrats, Stupid Republicans Lie about Medicare Part D to Attack Bush
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The week of April 22 was full of retrospectives concerning George W. Bush because of the opening of his presidential library. The event simply teed up the left for the same kind of venom we had to listen to for eight years. But I was surprised to see the right... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Boston Globe Repeats Democratic Party Lies about Medicare Advantage in Massachusetts
The April 21 Boston Globe article about Medicare choices for seniors leaves out one very important fact, apparently because the Globe is so closely tied into the Democratic Party. The Globe aticle repeats the insulting Democratic-Party talking point that Part C Medicare health plans currently called Medicare Advantage (and formerly... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Washington Post Wonkblog "Cancer Clinic" Story Is Real Nasty Left-wing Mediscare
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Thee going to get us, those damn lefties. We didn't vote their way last fall and put Mrs. "You gotta vote for it before you read it" Pelosi back in charge of the the House. So the lefties are coming after us middle-class seniors with every Journolister trick they ever... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Obama Throws FDR, LBJ Under the Bus to Take More Money from Medicare
According to the New York Times on April 4, Barack Obama has found screwed-up public policy issues that he can't blame on George W. Bush: Social Security and Original Medicare. So -- according to the Times -- he's blaming their creators, FDR and LBJ respectively, for telling seniors that Social... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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KevinMD Claims Part C Medicare Health Plans Pay for Sneakers
As I noted on March 27 in this post, KevinMD is responsible for the second most ignorant blog post ever written by the nutty single-payer "Medicare for All" group of MDs. Apparent Doctor Steven Resnik's false claim that Part C pays for sneakers takes it to a whole new level... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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How Good is Your State's Private "Original Medicare" Insurance Company at Approving Your Medicare Need?
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One of the great deceits about Medicare perpetrated by President Obama and other Democrats bigoted against us 14,000,000 seniors on Part C Medicare health plans is that Part C plans are "private" and that Original Medicare Parts A and B are "public," run by the government, pure as the driven... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Why the Stupid, Rich Republican Doctor from Wyoming Was Wrong about Seniors Screwing Medicare
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Recently I wrote about the stupid, rich Republican doctor and U.S. Senator from Wyoming that claimed senior citizens were sucking huge amounts of money out of Medicare that we seniors didn't deserve. Not only is it stupid for the Republicans to insult and demean us seniors (we are the only... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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The Second Most Ignorant Medicare Advantage Blogpost Ever Written
I wrote recently about the most ignorant Part C Medicare Advantage post ever written I had ever seen. Then I came across another on KevinMD. This piece of crap qualifies as the second most ignorant Part C Medicare Advantage blog post I've ever seen only because the primary ignorance is... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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How Obamacare Screws Up Medicare Even More
Two of the Congressional bozos that think "Medicare as we know it" is just great insurance for senior citizens (but they don’t use it themselves) and who also voted for Obamacare without reading it are belatedly trying to fix one of the many ways they have screwed up health care... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Is Original Medicare a Total Failure Or Just a "Work in Progress?"
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I wrote recently about the most ignorant Part C Medicare Advantage post ever written. A series of comments on that post led to a back and forth with a senior citizen aliased Peter1 who seemed like a reaonable guy. The series of comments and replies and re-replies between he and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Here's the Most Ignorant Part C Medicare Advantage Blogpost The Left-Wing Has Ever Written
This blog post is full of more than the usual Health Care Blog, Democratic-Party, far-left-wing ignorance about Medicare today, current Medicare reform proposals, and Medicare history. The author’s false statements are numbered below and his errors are corrected in the attached commentary: 1. “Seniors buy coverage through new Medicare Exchange.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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Rich Republican Doctor: Screw You Medicare Seniors! You're Sucking Medicare Dry
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The political stupidity exhibited by Republicans continuously amaze me. There was the witch (really -- not just a witchy woman) the Republicans ran for Senate in Delaware against the local dog catcher. You now call that dog catcher "Senator, Sir." Then there was the shoe-in from Alaska who lost the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 21, 2013 at theabcsofmedicare
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