More Senior Citizens Using Free Medicare Preventive Care; New Push by CMS Begins
June 23, 2011 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new report showing that more than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare - or nearly one in six people with Medicare - took advantage of one or more of the recommended preventive benefits now available for free, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. At the same time the agency launched a campaign to urge more ...

Welch: Medicare bill would save billions per year
BENNINGTON -- Vermont Democratic Congressman Peter Welch has introduced legislation calling for negotiation of drug prices for Medicare Part D beneficiaries, a move he said could save billions per year over the next decade.

GOP Medicare reforms need better marketing
Premium support is at the heart of GOP efforts to modernize Medicare before it evaporates, as soon as 2020.

HOPEWELL VALLEY: Medicare counseling is available at local library
Probably few, if any, of the people who have used or tried to use Medicare would dispute that it can be a dauntingly complex task.