Aging Americans helping to fuel pain killer sales explosion
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...
High court has options on health care law
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...
GOP budget: Medicare restructuring likely back on shelf
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...
Medicare rationing? House vote political in nature
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...
AARP wants to know what you think about Medicare, Social Security
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...
Obama’s budget leaves Medicare, Social Security alone
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...
Health overhaul unpopular, but not as feared
WASHINGTON —
Attacked as a rationing scheme and praised as a lifesaver, President Barack Obama’s health care law remains as divisive and confusing as ever....
Gov. Patrick has abandoned state’s elderly, say advocates
BOSTON —
Elder rights groups in Massachusetts say Gov. Deval Patrick’s policy agenda has all but forgotten the state’s aging population. The statement follows a...
Massachusetts elders face worst “independence gap” in nation
By Al Norman
March roared in like a lion with the release of a report by a national group called Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW),...
Another home care wait list starts today
BOSTON —
A second waiting list for elder home care began today. “This is just policy madness,” said Al Norman, executive director of Mass Home...
