Aug 16 2011
The Connecticut Mirror: 'Medigap' Policies May Be On The Table In Congressional Debate
On July 1, a Washington health advocacy group issued a dire warning about a small but significant Medicare provision on the table in the debt talks. "Under some of the proposals being discussed, seniors could pay as much as $7,500 per year out of pocket for medical care," read the alert from the Partnership to Protect Medigap. ... [The issue] could be front-and-center in the coming months, as the newly-appointed "super committee" on debt reduction gets to work (Shesgreen, 8/12).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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