Would you like answers to all your Medicare questions in one complete reference book? The 2008 Medicare Handbook is available from Aspen Publishing.

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05/15 - Center for Medicare Advocacy Report on Nursing Home Decisions Highlights Need for Serious Penalties

05/08 - Processes for some Durable Medical Equipment are going to start changing in July 2008 under the new competitive bidding program for suppliers for certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS)

05/07 - Center for Medicare Advocacy attorney Patricia Nemore co-authors 2 papers for the Commonwealth Fund: Medicare Part D: How do Vulnerable Beneficiaries Fare? and Medicare Part D: State and Local Efforts to Assist Vulnerable Beneficiaries

05/01 - Medicare's policy that requires beneficiaries to submit evidence along with their requests unfairly hinders people's ability to appeal.

04/01 - Medicare Actuary Reports to Congress: End Overpayments to Private Plans to Keep Medicare Solvent

03/27 - The Medicare Trustees have issued another gloomy report.  Why not end these doomsday predictions once and for all?  Where there's the will, there's the way! 

03/12 - Center for Medicare Advocacy and others tell Senate Finance Committee that Medicare Advantage plan marketing needs more oversight, offering specific suggestions for improvement.

02/21 - The Medicare 45% Trigger: What it is and Why it Matters.

Center News (.pdf) explores the risks of Medicare privatization.  Learn more about Medicare financing in the recent Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief (.pdf). 

Private Profits Come First: Law Continues Wasteful Medicare Subsidies to Private Corporations.

Medicare Part D continues to confuse, but here is a concise summary of the 2008 Part D Benefit, with details for Connecticut residents.

A little known, arbitrary rule in the Medicare Act of 2003 could mean big cuts to Medicare, our nation's most successful social program.

Judith Stein and Senator Christopher J. Dodd OpEd: "The Wrong Way To Fix Medicare".