Medicare Solutions BlogArchive for the ‘Politics’ Category
FDA Warns Zicam Poses Serious Health Risk
Discover high quality, low cost medicare plans at www.MedicareSolutions.com. The Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers to stop using three of the Zicam nasal cold symptom remedies because they have been shown to cause users to permanently lose their sense of smell. The FDA reports
that since 1999, it has received over 130 reports of [...]
Obama “Will” Control Medicare Costs
At a recent meeting Senate sources confirmed that President Obama plans to undertake a major Medicare reform. The White House hopes that a large part of the changes will be centered on MedPAC, the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee. MedPAC is an independent congressional agency formed to help Congress deal with Medicare issues. Every year the [...]
Kansas Governor nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius was introduced yesterday by President Barack Obama as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. As a Democrat in a Republican-dominated state, Sebelius has been frustrated in her attempts to expand health care coverage in Kansas. She has tried twice to raise Kansas’s cigarette tax to expand medical coverage [...]