medicare

Petitioning: Lifejacket-clad demonstrators deliver message to Hurt
Published on Aug 5th, 2012
51 comments About a dozen and a half citizens showed up at Congressman Robert Hurt's Charlottesville office August 3 to deliver a letter objecting to his votes they say are against Medicare and Medicaid. “We are...
Doctors dumping geezer patients
Published on Jun 7th, 2010
59 comments As Hook columnist Janis Jaquith predicted last month, doctors are dumping their elderly patients due to low reimbursements from Medicare, the federally funded eldercare program, according to a new...