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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (4489)	7/10/2001 7:49:45 AM
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Another vision of the Bush Administration! Seniors Get Fewer Health Choices by ANJETTA McQUEEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Too much federal paperwork and low reimbursements for serving some needier patients are among the issues dogging the Medicare HMO program, private researchers say in a new report. As a result seniors who were supposed to get benefits like prescription drug coverage are instead getting dropped -- as private health maintenance plans and the doctors and hospitals who work for them leave the Medicare program out of frustration, says the report being published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs. Congress, which created the program in 1997, has been too torn over whether to beef up the traditional Medicare program or devote more resources to attracting the private plans, said Marsha Gold, senior researcher with Mathematica, a social policy research group in Washington. ''Every one's been disappointed,'' said Gold, who added that in 2000 nearly 1 million seniors were affected by HMOs cutting back on Medicare services. ''There's no easy solution.'' The Bush administration nonetheless has promised to double the enrollment of seniors in Medicare HMOs, from about 15 percent of the 40 million Medicare enrollees to 30 percent in 2005........