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Editors Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven. Send your questi
stanley cup ons to Phil.In place of our normal dive into the reader mailbag today, I wanted to give you a heads up on a significant announcement the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made last week. It is likely to set in motion far-reaching changes in the way you pay for some and perhaps eventually all of the drugs you buy through Medicare. I say likely because the proposal has scads of influential opponents in the medical community and Congress, so its final form and timing are anything but certain. Also, the changes wouldnt begin until late this year. For these reasons, Im not going to get too deeply into details today. Rest assured, I will do so when the time is right.As Ive complained repeatedly, Medicare is prohibited from directly negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. This was o
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AMSTERDAM AP 鈥?Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest i
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stanley cup ose who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice. Otherwise, there can be no climate justice without international solidarity, Thunberg said.READ MORE: An EU plan to fight climate change will go to final votes, even if watered downAfter the Palestinian and Afghan women spoke and Thunberg resumed her speech, a man came onto the stage and told her: I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view, before he was ushered off the stage.The man identity was not immediately clear. He was wearing a jacket with the name of a group called Water Natuurlijk that has elected members in Dutch water boards.The Afghan woman, Sahar Shirzad, told The Associated Press that Thunberg allowed them to take the stage with her. Basically, she gave her time to us, she said.Before Thunberg took the stage, the event was briefly interrupted as a small group of activists at the front of the crowd waved Palestinian flags and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.She appeared undeterred and was later seen dancing behind the stage as band played.The incident came after tens
