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02-21-2004, 09:03 AM
The Medicare Act is complex, seniors have many decisions to make.
"The next decision, which wasn't made entirely clear at the panel discussion, would be for seniors to have to decide whether they want to stay in the traditional Medicare program or to select among a group of managed care plans similar in scope to PPOs and HMOs, which they may have avoided before they qualified for Medicare coverage, but which now will afford them drug benefits. Those that stay in traditional Medicare, according to the Concord Coalition, will face a continued spiraling of drug costs and higher premiums. Even the government under the law has announced that within 6 months after enactment of the act enrollees will be notified of changes in rate structure for Medicare. "
Read article http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1077256653
"The next decision, which wasn't made entirely clear at the panel discussion, would be for seniors to have to decide whether they want to stay in the traditional Medicare program or to select among a group of managed care plans similar in scope to PPOs and HMOs, which they may have avoided before they qualified for Medicare coverage, but which now will afford them drug benefits. Those that stay in traditional Medicare, according to the Concord Coalition, will face a continued spiraling of drug costs and higher premiums. Even the government under the law has announced that within 6 months after enactment of the act enrollees will be notified of changes in rate structure for Medicare. "
Read article http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/mariwinn1077256653