Jul 22, 2011 ... The official handbook, "Medicare & You 2011," says that "Medicare covers two  types of physical exams — one when you're new to Medicare and one each year  after ... The Affordable Care Act created the once-a-year wellness visit as a new  benefit, paying doctors to perform it and making it free to patients.
It makes sense for interest groups to use lobbyists as front-line warriors in the  fight over the health-care dollar — the biggest pot of cash in the gigantic  American ... Some even argue that lobbying plays a crucial role in balancing the  fiercely competing groups that profit from the health-care system: doctors, nurses,  drug ...
AARP makes about a quarter of its money selling insurance through its affiliate,  United Healthcare Group, the nation's largest for-profit insurance company.  AARP must defeat single payer ... It is bad enough to say we can't do single payer  because the insurance industry is too powerful to beat. But it is just plain  insidious to ...
Oct 21, 2011 ... I'm healthy! I have family who will care for me, and I refuse to go into a nursing  home, anyway. Medicare and Medicaid will cover care once I need it ... "Once  you have a diagnosis of an illness, you can't get coverage," says Maryglenn  Boals, an independent long-term care insurance agent in Phoenix. "Think ...
Jim Martin: Seniors will benefit from the right kind of health care reform that  protects and enhances the Medicare system they have paid into most of their  lives, and expands options and encourages new doctors and nurses into the  medical profession. Unfortunately the reform currently being proposed is  devastating to the ...
Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP say that health reform "makes sense to do."