Happy 50th Birthday Medicare

Twenty states did not expand the Affordable Care Act, but this does not impact in any major way upon rates of self-reported health for Medicaid patients unlike what other research has shown.

Approximately 30,000 Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in Rhode Island will be eligible to participate in the pilot.

After 50 years as laws, Medicare and Medicaid have seen several triumphs and challenges, making their marks on American healthcare from expanding low-income coverage to raising serious questions about national finances.

“Per-capita spending and medical inflation are all at historically very modest levels”, said Andy Slavitt, the official in President Barack Obama’s administration who oversees the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as implementation of the law.

Rhode Island is entering into a new partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services.

He also said that Obamacare or Affordable Health Care is attempting to help these programs. This is how health-care providers in Wisconsin are providing better care at a better price.

Nearly one out of three Americans depends on Medicare and Medicaid for needed health care.

Medicaid is more complicated.

“There are a sizable number of people that earn more income from investments and they’re not paying anymore”, O’Connor says.

Before Medicare, health care in America was highly segregated.

Perhaps more important, for 50 years Medicaid has filled the gaps in health coverage that often occur in people’s lives and helped them transition through life events that would otherwise leave them uninsured. Medicare also covers 23 types of preventive services, including flu shots and diabetes screenings. (Medi)care for the old and (Medic)aid for the poor. And Medicare has changed along the way, responding to these advances and ensuring that Medicare met its goal to offer health needs of seniors. These programs have been protecting the health and well-being of millions of American families, saving lives, and improving economic security. “ASTRO is eager to continue working with the Medicare program and Congress to safeguard the necessary continued support to maintain access to community-based cancer care and to develop alternative payment models that strengthen Medicare for the next 50 years and beyond”, concluded Haffty. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to choose whether or not they participate in the Medicaid expansion. This program is vital, and its imminent success relies on the commitment to retain Medicaid strong and on the trail to sustained improvement.