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Americans to save 3% on monthly premiums for Medicare plans next year
For the first time in a decade, Americans will pay less next year on monthly premiums for Medicare's Part B plan, which covers routine doctors' visits and other outpatient care. The rare 3 per cent decrease in monthly premiums is likely to be coupled with a historically high cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits perhaps 9 per cent or 10 per cent putting hundreds of dollars directly into the pockets of millions of people. "That's something we may never see again in the rest of our lives," said Mary Johnson, the Social Security and Medicare policy analyst for The Senior Citizens League. "That can really be used to pay off credit cards, to restock pantries that have gotten low because people can't afford to buy as much today as they did a year ago and do some long-postponed repairs to homes and cars." The 2023 decrease in monthly Medicare premiums comes after millions of beneficiaries endured a tough year of high inflation and a dramatic increase to premiums this year.
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NHA shows effectiveness of govt's increasing expenditure on health care
The current trends in the nature of the health expenditure in India vindicate the multiple steps taken by the Union government to increase access to healthcare services in the country
Govt to rationalise rates of health benefit packages under Ayushman Bharat
Move will further encourage private sector participation in the scheme
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Health schemes, drug prices led to saving of Rs 50,000 cr for families: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the poor and needy have been able to save Rs 50,000 crore annually due to various health-related measures taken up by his government like providing affordable medicines, healthcare and reducing the prices of medical devices. Modi, who dedicated to the nation the 7,500th Janaushadhi Kendra at North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) in Shillong, also said the move to provide affordable medicines through the Janaushadhi scheme is spreading across the length and breadth of the country. In a virtual address at the 'Janaushadhi Week' celebrated across the nation from March 1 to March 7 to create awareness about the 'Janaushadhi' scheme, the Prime Minister said it is helping countrymen living in tribal areas in the North East and the mountainous areas. "Today when the 7,500th centre has been inaugurated, it has been held in Shillong. It is clear from this how much public health centres are ...
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Unique ID, data privacy give strength to Centre's digital health mission
Digitised health records could help collate and analyse data in a more comprehensive and 'real time' manner for policymaking
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Why Modi's PM CARES is more democratic than PM National Relief Fund
With a constitutionally sound trust in place, expectations would be that PM CARES becomes a war chest India can readily rely on in emergencies when the future of an entire country is at stake
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Health schemes to suffer as govt sacks consultants
Last week, the Centre had ordered that 45 foreign-funded consultants be removed from service by June, as they had served more than 3 years
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