By Chris Hawley NEW YORK — Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic. From New York’s Staten Island to Santa Fe, N.M., Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) [...]
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Aging Americans helping to fuel pain killer sales explosion
Posted on 05 April 2012.
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High court has options on health care law
Posted on 03 April 2012.
By Mark Sherman and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON — The arguments are done and the case has been submitted, as Chief Justice John Roberts says at the end of every Supreme Court argument. Now the justices will wrestle with what to do with President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. They have a range of options, from [...]
GOP budget: Medicare restructuring likely back on shelf
Posted on 29 March 2012.
WASHINGTON — Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the rich. The blueprint by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was headed [...]
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Medicare rationing? House vote political in nature
Posted on 23 March 2012.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON — House Republicans resurrected the specter of Medicare rationing Thursday in an election-year vote to repeal cost controls in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. In the GOP crosshairs is a board that has yet to be named but would be empowered to force cuts to drug companies, insurers and other service [...]
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AARP wants to know what you think about Medicare, Social Security
Posted on 19 March 2012.
BOSTON — AARP leaders across the country, and in Springfield, today announced the launch of You’ve Earned a Say, a national conversation about strengthening health and retirement security. With You’ve Earned a Say, AARP is taking the debate about Medicare and Social Security out from behind closed doors in Washington and making sure that all [...]
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Obama’s budget leaves Medicare, Social Security alone
Posted on 14 March 2012.
By Andrew Taylor WASHINGTON — Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. Though the [...]
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