Medicare Open Enrollment begins Oct. 15
With more benefits, better choices and lower costs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is encouraging people with Medicare and their families...
Senators accuse home care companies of overbooking care
Senate investigators are accusing three of the nation’s biggest home care providers of deliberately increasing their visits to patients to get higher payments from...
Obama’s deficit plan tightens squeeze on Medicare
WASHINGTON —
When it comes to health care savings, President Barack Obama’s deficit plan borrows a familiar strategy from corporate America’s playbook: cut costs or...
Obama debt taming plan would spare Social Security
By Jim Kuhnhenn
WASHINGTON —
President Barack Obama is backing away from some deficit reduction proposals he considered during failed summer negotiations with House Speaker John...
Government: 401(k) fee disclosures may be electronic
Workers with 401(k) retirement accounts are due to receive improved disclosures about the fees they’re paying. The Department of Labor has mandated such disclosure...
Long-term care insurance plan at risk
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Even as leading Democrats offered assurances to the contrary, government experts repeatedly warned that a new long-term care insurance plan could go...
‘Supercommittee’ tackles sensitive issue of entitlements
By David Espo
Digging in for a bruising struggle, Republicans on Congress’ powerful deficit-fighting “supercommittee” targeted Social Security and government health care spending Tuesday while...
Social Security focus of Republican debate
By Charles Babington
TAMPA, Fla. —
Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry softened his rhetoric if not his position on Social...
Fewer Medicare Part D enrollees are hitting doughnut hole
Fewer Medicare prescription drug plan enrollees are falling into a coverage gap known as the doughnut hole in which they bear the full cost...
Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
By Stephen Ohlemacher
WASHINGTON —
Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward...
