Medicare Costs To Increase In Alabama

Alabama Montgomery Low-income beneficiaries may have to pay $96/month due to federal cuts

by Associated Press

Published: Fri, July 04, 2008 - 1:45 pm CST

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Some 15,500 low-income Alabamians on
Medicare could soon be forced to shell out extra money each month.
Those who use a program that helps low-income Medicare
beneficiaries pay the premium for Medicare Part B could soon have
to pay an extra $96 a month. Medicare Part B covers such medical
expenses as doctor visits and some prescription drugs.
States were notified last week that the federal government is no
longer picking up the tab for poor people enrolled in a Medicare
savings program.
Alabama Medicaid spokeswoman Robin Rawls said the state can't
afford to pay the cost for the program. Alabama will receive $11.7
million to pay the premiums, nearly $10 million less than the state
requested.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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carl Says:

Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 7:56 am

I didn’t even know that they had such a program and since it was the medicaid spokeswoman talking I thought maybe it was medicaid. I don’t know anything about medicaid, never had it. I might have been losing out on that $96 a month. Just my luck! I find out about it when they decide to discontinue it.

sydric Says:

Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 7:36 am

Our Gov is doing it to us again. Where in the world are these people going to come up with 96.00 a month. So much for taking care of the people that live in the USA. Most of them will have to give up either eating, medicine or other live necessities just to have Dr. care. No it is not Medicaid.
Let us send some more money out of the country to take care of people elsewhere and make our people suffer…
Thank you Congress

carl Says:

Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 3:43 pm

Are we talking Medicare or Mediciad here?