Topic: Medicare
Obama administration offers temporary boost for endangered early retiree health programsTrying to entice employers to keep early retirees on their medical plans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday it's making $5 billion available until the safety net of the new health care law ...
Seniors wary as they await effect of Obama's health care overhaul; there'll be winners, losersSeniors aren't celebrating President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. While Democrats hail the sweeping legislation as the greatest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare, they also ...
Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red. The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would ...
Fed, state gov't to pick up bill for more than half the nation's health care by 2012Government is poised to become king of the hill in America's vast health care system, with or without President Barack Obama's planned redo, according an economic ...
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health care lobbying subsides as interest groups see new political terrainNotice you're not bombarded anymore by TV ads about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan? Drugmakers, business organizations and other interest groups in the health care battle have ...
Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history. "We are now finally poised to deliver ...
Text of President Barack Obama speaking Thursday about the Senate passing a health care reform bill, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. ___ Obama: Good morning, everybody. In a historic vote that took place this morning, members of the Senate joined their colleagues ...
Taxes and fees will kick first, most benefits come later under Dems' health care billAmericans will feel the pain before the gain from the health care overhaul Democrats are close to pushing through Congress. Proposed taxes and fees on upper-income earners, insurers, ...
Vote on latest version of bill could begin Monday, end on Christmas Eve WASHINGTON The Senate today convenes its third weekend session in a row, beginning an around-the-clock effort to overcome Democratic infighting, a wall of Republican opposition and slipping support in ...
The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died Wednesday in the Senate, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed it will return when the realization dawns that private insurance companies "are no longer needed." Sanders, an independent ...
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Medicare Sleuths
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Medicare Fraud Arrests
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