Medicare drug benefit

Biden’s Budget Would Hike Medicare Taxes, Boost Medicaid Home-Based Long-Term Care

President Biden’s 2025 budget proposal, which will double as his presidential campaign platform, includes major proposals aimed at supporting older adults. It would raise taxes to help fund Medicare, increase federal support for Medicaid home-based care,, create a federal family leave program for those caring for older adults as well as children, and toughen regulation and inspections of nursing homes. [...]

By Howard Gleckman|2024-03-12T09:55:41-04:00March 12th, 2024|Joe Biden|0 Comments

Would Trump’s New Drug Rebate Rule Help You?

The Trump Administration has proposed a major change in the way drugs are priced for Medicare beneficiaries. The new rules would upend the current complex and opaque pricing system for pharmaceuticals, lower prices for users of some costly drugs (though not others), and raise Medicare Part D premiums for everyone. Whether you win or lose under the new system would [...]

By Howard Gleckman|2019-02-06T14:23:56-05:00February 6th, 2019|Medicare|0 Comments