Topic: Medicare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than five million Medicare recipients have used preventive healthcare services to date in 2011, and U.S. health officials are trying to accelerate that trend to combat crippling healthcare costs.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aetna Inc said on Monday that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had lifted a ban on the No. 3 health insurer's marketing and enrollment of new members to its Medicare plans for the elderly.While Aetna ...
The US Senate's top Republican predicted Friday that voters in the 2012 election won't punish his party for demanding huge spending cuts to reduce the US deficit."We don't know what the issues are going to be in next year's election, it's a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday that the Medicare healthcare program will be part of any bipartisan agreement to reduce the U.S. deficit and increase the debt limit."Medicare will be part of the solution," McConnell told ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Wednesday stuck by their plan to privatize the Medicare federal health insurance program for the elderly despite a rebuke from voters in a special congressional election in New York state."We can no longer let politicians in Washington ...
The US Democrat Party was jubilant Wednesday after an upset victory in a congressional by-election seen as baring a potentially fatal weakness in Republican strategy ahead of 2012 national polls.The immediate battle in upstate New York's 26th Congressional District was to fill ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deficit-reduction negotiators have identified broad areas for saving hundreds of billions of dollars but still disagree on changing the costly but popular Medicare program, a source familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.Vice President Joe Biden and a bipartisan ...
The Democratic Party scored an upset victory late Tuesday in a tight Congressional by-election seen testing Republicans' strategy on politically sensitive budget cuts ahead of 2012 nationwide vote.The race in western New York's 26th Congressional District saw Democratic challenger Kathy Hochul taking ...
The Democratic Party appeared to have scored an upset victory late Tuesday in a tight Congressional by-election seen testing Republicans' strategy on politically sensitive budget cuts ahead of 2012 nationwide polls.The race in western New York state's 26th Congressional District saw Democratic ...
The United States is burning through its health care and retirement fund pools faster than planned, with the Medicare trust fund to be exhausted by 2024, five years earlier than expected, officials said.A combination of higher costs and lower-than-expected revenues has worsened ...
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Medicare and the Boomers
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