Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - January 19, 1976, Xenia, Ohio THE XENIA DAILY GAZETTE Monday January SYLVIA Medicare costs are up again IF YOU ARE an elderly and-or disabled American covered by Medicare you Will pay more out-of-pocket for your health care in 1976 in any year since the program was begun cents more a month starting this July for the doctor insurance part of Medicare more on your hospital bills to cover an increase in the Medicare hospital deductible 13 per cent increase in your toward the cost of your hospital stays of more than 60 days and post-hospital stays of more than 21 days in skilled nursing homes WHY THIS new pinch on you of all brutally squeezed amendments to the Social groups of Because Security law intended to of the relentless upsurge in limit future increases in the medical care costs Medicare premium rate to the percentage by which Social Security cash benefits had been raised in a Since price restraints were lifted in May 1974 physicians fees and hospital 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messed up the twice the rate of the overall description of which Consumer Price Index month period however costs of the Medicare program have far outrun earlier estimates The deductibles and payments that Medicare beneficiaries must pay out of their own pockets or through premiums for privately purchased another insurance have the face of an additional 8 per cent increase in Social Security benefits in 1975 The result was the premium could not be raised last July even though cash benefits under Social Security had been hiked 11 per cent in 1974 And there was the chance that the premium rate would be soared proportionately When Medicare was started in July 1966 the premium rate for the voluntary doctor in- surance was set at a But in the final hours before adjournment last month Congress acted to this correct the drafting matching to be paid out of permitting the premium federal revenues for each rate to rise bv cents next elderly person enrolled was July to figured to cover the costs of Tnis increase will come on the program in the first top of a rise of 13 per cent in Thereafter rates were the amount of the medicare to be reviewed each year hospital deductible and raised if necessary By July 1974 the monthly as attempts to limit physician fee in- served mainly to shift costs to the elderly and disabled PRESIDENT Ford nevertheless will call for more cost sharing when he delivers his budget for the next fiscal year on Wednesday will as he did last year and as President Nixon did before Medicare deductibles and payments be raised still further for those with short or average length hospital stays This proposal the President will argue would more than billion a year in the Medicare budget And from where would these savings From the pockets of the elderly and-or disabled Make you feel premium rate had than doubled to IF YOU a Medicare more beneficiary are admitted to only because Congress made an error in drafting Carpet for a room Carpet for your entire Now is the 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