Leaders increasingly optimistic they'll strike Medicare deal
Source: The Hill
By Peter Sullivan and Mike Lillis
Drawing ever-closer to a bipartisan deal, top congressional leaders are increasingly optimistic Congress will pass a long-term fix to the perennial problem surrounding Medicare payments to doctors.
“I'm not going to say we've got it all resolved yet, but I'm optimistic that we will,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday.
Committee leaders in both the House and Senate introduced legislation Thursday to end automatic cuts to doctors under Medicare, though the proposal does not include provisions offsetting the substantial costs. Those much more controversial details are still being worked out by top leaders.
The broader package, which is expected to include a two-year extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program, could be released in the coming days.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/236281-210b-medicare-deal-unveiled
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Those near poverty or below won't pay... The Obama plan on this was to leave people with less money no payments at all. Only the higher income would pay.
Or are you speaking of the concept that all the recipients get the same amount to be paid, no matter what their income is? That could go to that GOP concept of it being welfare instead of an earned benefit. That's not right.
I do hope that premiums for basic don't go up and don't believe it's on the table, last I read. It's supposed to stay the same. 
Otherwise, IDK.
I know of someone that is well off and pays about $335.00 for Medicare Part B. It has been that way for quite some time best I know.
Costs here:
http://www.medicare.gov/your-medicare-costs/part-b-costs/part-b-costs.html
