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Medicare Program References & More!


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  1. Kodjak, Alison; (05/12/2016). “Fact-Checking Hillary Clinton’s Medicare Buy-In Proposal” – Health Care, (https://www.npr.org).
  2. Rappaport, Alan and Sanger-Katz, Margot; “Hillary Clinton Takes a Step to the Left on Health Care”, New York Times, May 10, 2016 and Dr. McCanne (05/11/2106); “Is Hillary Clinton’s Medicare buy-in proposal a step towards single payor?”, Physicians for a National Health Program (http://PNHP.org/blog/2016/05/11,
  3. Wheeler, Arthur; (April 15, 2017). “Medicare C – The Advantaged Replacement for Obamacare”. (http://bcsconsultants.net).
  4. Monday Blog; (March 24, 2016). “Here’s how many billions Obamacare will cost in 2016”, Money Magazine, Health Care.
  5. State Health Facts, (Timeframe: 2015); “Health Insurance Coverage of the Total Population”, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Survey for the year 2015 (www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/?dataView) and the 10 Insurance Executives / CEO’s, Open Letter to McConnell & Schumer, (June 20, 2017). 
  6. The Hill, (02/03/17); “Trump Administration Announces 9.2 million Obamacare signups” and (www.healthcare.gov).
  7. Ten (10) Top Insurance Executives/CEO’s, Open Letter to Mitch McConnell & Chuck Schumer, (June 20, 2017).
  8. Altman, Drew; First, William H. (July 28, 2015). Medicare and Medicaid at 50 Years: Perspectives of Beneficiaries, Health Care Professionals and Institutions, and Policy Makers”. JAMA. 314 (4): 384-395. PMID 26219056 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26219056.doi:10.101/jama.2015.7811) (http://doi/10.1001%2Fjama.2015.7811), and Wikipedia, p. 1/33, downloaded 06/18/2017, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States).
  9. See Health Insurance for the Aged Act, Title 1 of Social Security Amendments of 1965, Pub. L. No. 89-97, 79 Stat. 286 (July 30, 1965), generally effective with the month of July 1966, and Section 321 of the amended Section 1401 of the Internal                                       Revenue Code to impose the Medicare tax.
  10. The 2016 Annual Report of Medicare Trustees (for the year 2015 - United States), June 22,2016, from Wikipedia, downloaded 06/18/2017, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States).
  11. Health Expenditures, total (% of GDP); The World Bank, Retrieved 07/01/2017 (apps.who.int/NHA/database and data.worldbank.org).
  12. CBO / “The Long-Term Budget Outlook and Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs” (http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/93xx/doc9385/06-17-LTBO_Testomony.pdf). Cbo.gov (june 17,2008). Retrieved on 2013-07-17 and the Medicare (United States) from Wikipedia, p. 16/33, downloaded 06/18/2017, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States).
  13. State Health Facts, (Timeframe: 2015); “Health Insurance Coverage of the Total Population”, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Survey for the year 2015 (kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/?dataView).
  14. Wikipedia; Medicare (United States), “Part C: Medicare Advantage plans” p. 8/33, downloaded 06/18/2017 (https://www.cms.gov/ReportsTrustFunds/downloads/tr2016.pdf). 
  15. Wikipedia; Medicare (United States), “Part C: Medicare Advantage plans” p. 16/33, downloaded 06/18/2017, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)
  16. “Medicare Chartbook, 2010” (http://kff.org/medicare/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID =14160). Kaiser Family Foundation. October 30, 2010. Archived from the original (http:/kff.org/Medicare/report/medicare-chartbook-2010) on October 20, 2013.
  17. Pianin, Eric (12/17/2002). “Congress Weakens Obamacare by Limiting Bailout Funds for Insurers”, The Fiscal Times – Policy + Politics (thefiscaltimes.com).
  18. Paul, Rand, “Live Interview with Fox Evening News”, 6/29/2017.
  19. Kaiser Family Foundation, (09/29/2106). “Key Facts about the Uninsured Population”, p.5/19. (http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-theuninsured-population/).
  20. Finkelstein, A., Hendren, N., Shepard, M. (April, 2017), “Subsidizing Health insurance for Low-Oncome Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts”, Professors: MIT, Harvard & Kennedy School of Government and NBER. 
  21. https://www,cms.gov/ReportsTrustFunds/downloads/tr2016.pdf) Medicare (United States) from Wikipedia, p.17/33, downloaded 06/18/2017.
  22. Palmer, A., Haberkorn, J., Demko, P., (05/21/2015). “ Top lobbyist calls it quits at key moment for Obamacare”. Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/karenignagni-leaving-ahip-118182).
  23. CBO / Long-Term Budget Outlook and Options June 17, 2008. Reports Trust Funds/tr2016.pdf & “Graph on Page 4”.
  24. CBO / Long-Term Budget Outlook and Options June 17, 2008.
  25. CBO, Report to Congress on AHCA House Bill, June 2017.
  26. CBO, Report to Congress on AHCA House Bill, June 2017.
  27. “What CBO got Right-and-Wrong on Obamacare”, CNN, Money On-line, 03/12/17.
  28. CBO, Report to Congress on Senate Bill (H.R. 1628), p. 29, June 26,
  29. Ten (10) Top Insurance Executives/CEO’s, ($ x 2) Open Letter to Mitch McConnell & Chuck Schumer, (June 20, 2017) and also CMS.gov, “National Health Expenditure Data”, NHE Fact Sheet, Historical NHE, 2015.
  30. Dan Holler, Heritage Action for America email on Senate’s fight, 06/17/2017.
  31. Ten (10) Top Insurance Executives/CEO’s, Open Letter to McConnell & Schumer, (June 20, 2017).
  32. CBO, Report to Congress on Senate Bill (H.R. 1628), p. 29, June 26, 2017
  33.  If the average monthly premiums for Medicare Part C - were $700 per individual and $1,050 per family (comparable to the 2nd lowest cost ACA Silver Plan) and only 40% of the ACA participants (3.6 million) are eligible for premium subsidies (the average subsidy is 30% for the individual and 60% for the family) with an equal distribution of both, the plan would cost only 18.5 billion in premium subsidies next year.
  34. CBO, Report to Congress on Senate Bill (H.R. 1628), p. 29, June 26,  
  35. Christy Chapin Ford (June 19, 2017), “How Did health care Get to Be Such a Mess?”, OP-ED New York Times.