The Kaiser Network has released a reported titled “Financing Medicare: An Issue Brief,” which gives an overview of Medicare’s future, including funding issues and challenges.
In other Medicare news, lawmakers say they will resume the business of Medicare, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Medicaid policy changes in 2008. One issue on the list is preventing a 10 percent cut in Medicare physician fees. Other issues include genetic non-discrimination and discussing the Bush administration’s policy that prevents states from expanding Medicaid eligibility. (Kaiser Network)
Critical of the Bush administration’s stance on SCHIP, Republican senator Olympia Snowe told CongressDaily that the “administration has failed to recognize the way to achieve results for uninsured children is through building legislative consensus, not executive fiat.”
