115 ordspråk av Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan
It's time for people with Medicare and those who care about them to start thinking about making Medicare decisions. And we will help them.
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It's time to start thinking about a choice, but you have plenty of time,
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Many people tend to wait until closer to the deadline to make a decision. It's like most people don't do their Christmas shopping in September.
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Many people were expecting significant reduction in retiree coverage, which just hasn't happened.
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Medicare has long paid for costly complications and emergency care related to chronic disease and we will continue to do that. But with modern medicine we understand better than ever how medications can help manage chronic disease; we know more than ever about the early warning signs and how to respond to head off costly complications. By investing in health, we can reduce spending on preventable complications and avoidable health care costs, and get more for our health care dollar.
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Most of the questions really get down to: What does this new benefit mean to me?
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No Medicare beneficiary has to make a decision now, ... This is the time to start thinking about Medicare prescription drug coverage.
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Nobody should be looking in detail through 40 different choices, so the question is, how can you quickly help people go from 40 to the four or five most useful to them.
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Our surveys show that, 5-to-1, people are very satisfied with the program. For people who have had problems, we're finding the problems and fixing them.
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Our underlying concerns about post-acute services remain. What we are doing today is paying different amounts based on where a patient happens to go.
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People do have time to take a deep breath. They don't need to rush into a decision.
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People need to start by understanding what kind of coverage they have now.
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People should get the prescription drugs they need. And we are going to work closely and around the clock and around the country to make sure that happens.
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result of a long hard road.
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Right now [the website's] main use is for training and familiarity purposes for those who work with beneficiaries. It's not yet time to use the tool to make your decision.
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