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The types of health plans that may contract with Medicare have been expanded significantly. Medicare beneficiaries will have to make a determined effort to decipher the assortment of choices they now face. Health plans are required to take prescribed steps to educate Medicare beneficiaries about their choices and must contribute to cost the federal government incurs for related outreach efforts.
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Rejecting the Clinton Administration's call for mandatory health alliances, a key congressional panel recently passed a bill that expands the Medicare program to cover low-income and uninsured Americans. While some have criticized the bill's cost-containment provisions, the panel agreed that universal coverage cannot be achieved without a national health budget.
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Medicare, the universal health care program for the elderly and the disabled, is pending bankruptcy by the year 2008. Efforts to ensure its fiscal solvency are underway. The Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare formed by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 recently debated a bold new idea to transform this important program. There is some concern that this concept will not solve the problem without new funding. In addition, there are those who believe this is the time to correct one of Medicare's major flaws--the lack of a prescription benefit. Congressional action over the next several months will be critical to saving this program for future seniors.
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