Hackernews posts about Medicare

Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people aged 65 and older, certain younger people with disabilities, and those with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant).

1. Trump Picks TV's Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid (www.reuters.com)
   34 points by gniting 3 days ago | 23 comments
2. Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw (www.propublica.org)
   2 points by hn_acker 9 days ago | discuss
3. Scientists Film 'Giant' Mimivirus in Action (www.tus.ac.jp)
   4 points by geox 9 days ago | discuss
4. Family medicine is in decline (thewalrus.ca)
   88 points by mooreds 26 days ago | 209 comments
5. How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine (www.wsj.com)
   47 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 115 comments
6. Prospect of RFK Jr. as head of HHS panics many in medical science community (www.science.org)
   3 points by rbanffy about 16 hours ago | discuss
7. Medical Video Generation for Disease Progression Simulation (arxiv.org)
   2 points by IrohXu 1 day ago | discuss
8. Conversational Medical AI: Ready for Practice (arxiv.org)
   1 points by belter 1 day ago | discuss
9. Free Qwen 2.5, Llama Nemotron, OpenBioLLM, Gemini Exp 1121, and LearnLM 1.5 Pro
   1 points by gizai about 3 hours ago | discuss
10. Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds (medicalxpress.com)
    244 points by vivekd 14 days ago | 115 comments
11. Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer (medicine.washu.edu)
    7 points by geox 9 days ago | discuss
12. Parents of 2 year-old Bitten By Rattlesnake Charged Nearly $300k (www.msn.com)
    5 points by impish9208 22 days ago | discuss
13. Autism prevalence increasing in children, adults (www.thetransmitter.org)
    3 points by domofutu 1 day ago | 1 comments
14. Researchers define new subtypes of common brain disorder (medicine.washu.edu)
    2 points by gmays about 11 hours ago | discuss
15. Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls (onair.io)
    263 points by bigmicro 8 days ago | 107 comments
16. Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs
    147 points by jonasnelle 2 days ago | 80 comments
17. Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care (www.statnews.com)
    247 points by danso over 1 year ago | 207 comments
18. Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead (hartmannreport.com)
    244 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | 187 comments
19. Feds killed 2014 plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling (kffhealthnews.org)
    121 points by consumer451 3 months ago | 75 comments
20. Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations (www.nytimes.com)
    115 points by SeanBoocock over 1 year ago | 104 comments
21. Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules (www.kff.org)
    91 points by cwwc 7 months ago | 209 comments
22. How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid (www.cnbc.com)
    82 points by latchkey over 1 year ago | 72 comments
23. Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors but not hospitals, doctors (kffhealthnews.org)
    58 points by mooreds 12 months ago | 121 comments
24. Older Americans say they feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans (text.npr.org)
    41 points by rawgabbit 11 months ago | 43 comments
25. US expects billions in savings from first Medicare drug price cuts (www.reuters.com)
    35 points by pcurve 3 months ago | 4 comments
26. Drugmakers want to stop Medicare from negotiating prices (www.cnn.com)
    34 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 10 comments
27. The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare (www.wsj.com)
    26 points by IG_Semmelweiss 4 months ago | 69 comments
28. Insurers Pocketed $50B from Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated (www.wsj.com)
    26 points by impish9208 5 months ago | 2 comments
29. Health insurers can't rely on AI to decide Medicare coverage (mashable.com)
    21 points by pg_1234 10 months ago | 1 comments
30. VA hospitals are outperforming private hospitals, latest Medicare survey shows (www.npr.org)
    19 points by andsoitis over 1 year ago | discuss
31. For-Profit 'Medicare Advantage' Plans Using AI for Denials (www.commondreams.org)
    12 points by MilnerRoute about 1 year ago | 3 comments
32. U.S. Announces First Drugs Picked for Medicare Price Negotiations (www.nytimes.com)
    10 points by woodruffw about 1 year ago | 2 comments
33. Drug makers have tripled the prices of top Medicare drugs (arstechnica.com)
    7 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | 1 comments
34. Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube (www.404media.co)
    6 points by nickthegreek 11 months ago | 1 comments
35. Medicare negotiating drug prices will likely save the U.S. billions, study says (www.nbcnews.com)
    6 points by paulpauper almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
36. Antitrust cops should be going after Medicare, not Google (thehill.com)
    5 points by howard941 3 months ago | discuss
37. The Medicare Bubble Has Burst (www.wsj.com)
    5 points by thelastgallon 6 months ago | discuss
38. Medicare negotiating drug prices will likely save the U.S. billions, study says (www.nbcnews.com)
    5 points by paulpauper over 1 year ago | discuss
39. Serving a billion web requests with boring code (medicare.gov) (notes.billmill.org)
    4 points by zishha1b0njq about 1 month ago | 1 comments
40. UnitedHealth sued over use of algorithm in Medicare Advantage plans (www.statnews.com)
    4 points by webmaven about 1 year ago | discuss
41. U.S. to rein in technology that limits Medicare Advantage care (www.msn.com)
    4 points by MilnerRoute about 1 year ago | discuss
42. Judge rejects AstraZeneca's challenge to Medicare drug price negotiations (www.cnbc.com)
    3 points by toomuchtodo 9 months ago | 2 comments
43. Medicare plans can now cover Wegovy for patients at risk of heart disease (www.npr.org)
    3 points by paulpauper 8 months ago | discuss
44. Medicare to cover obesity drugs, but not for weight loss (thehill.com)
    3 points by paulpauper 8 months ago | discuss
45. UnitedHealth made employees use an AI algorithm to end Medicare patients rehab (www.statnews.com)
    3 points by hprotagonist about 1 year ago | discuss
46. Medicare: A Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. and No One Is Sure Why (www.nytimes.com)
    3 points by resalisbury about 1 year ago | discuss