Also he used his very own birth certificate to christen the 1st one he made. The dolls attracted the attention of toy manufacturer Coleco who began mass-producing them in 1982 I and it was then that they were renamed as Cabbage Patch Kids. Today the licence to produce the dolls is held by Play Along toys.
1 ï»¿ï»¿ Traditional Medicare covers Parts A and B, and you pay standard rates for services, regardless of where you live. 2  You can go to any doctor, hospital or other provider that accepts Medicare patients anywhere in the country.
The standard Medicare Part B premium is determined by a formula contained in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, which set the premium at 25 percent of total program costs. The remaining 75 percent of program costs are financed through general revenues. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) requires higher-income beneficiaries to pay a higher percentage of program costs, resulting in multiple tiers of premiums based on income.