Medicare trustees report shows challenges ahead
The Medicare Trustees Report released today shows that while Medicare remains solvent longer than expected prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act, challenges...
Despite differences, Obama, GOP eye Medicare limit
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
WASHINGTON —
Unlikely as it may seem, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress actually share some common ground on the need to curb...
AARP launches campaign to preserve health and retirement security
Washington, DC, May 4 —
With the national debate heating up on raising the debt ceiling, today AARP launched a new campaign to fight proposals...
Americans 45 and older are new voting-age majority
By Hope Yen
WASHINGTON —
For the first time, Americans 45 and older make up a majority of the voting-age population, giving older Americans wider influence...
Feinstein vows fight for Medicare, social programs
By Juliet Williams
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein told the Democratic faithful on Saturday that they must work to retake the House of Representatives...
Obama administration eases pain of Medicare cuts
WASHINGTON —
Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial cuts...
New Guidelines Define Pre-Alzheimer’s Disease
By Marilynn Marchione
The first new guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 30 years establish earlier stages of the mind-robbing disease, paving the way...
Legislation would curb out-of-pocket costs after hospital stay
BOSTON —
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act — a bipartisan bill in the U.S. House and Senate to help confront the large out-of-pocket costs...
Obama pivots, eyes Medicare changes, tax increases
WASHINGTON —
President Barack Obama coupled a call for $4 trillion in long-term deficit reductions with a blistering attack on Republican plans for taxes,...
Analysis: GOP gets its turn on Medicare hot seat
The GOP budget expected to go to the full House this week would remake health care programs for the elderly and the poor that have been in place for nearly half a century.
