Medicare - How to Pay for Health Care

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the government's most popular programs for the elderly, Medicare and Social Security, will run out of money sooner than thought earlier as a slow-growing economy saps revenues, a report Friday said.Trustees for the two funds said the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said Thursday his panel has no plans to move forward on a Republican proposal that would privatize the Medicare health program for future retirees.Camp said he would rather move a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hospitals that improve medical care for elderly patients, and reduce deadly errors, will get millions of dollars under an incentive program launched on Friday that aims to cut overall Medicare costs.The government healthcare program for seniors spent about $4.4 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers privately discussed ways on Tuesday to better explain a proposed overhaul of a popular healthcare program for the elderly after a number of testy exchanges with constituents."Some members are feeling the heat," a congressional aide said, referring ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart devices known as drug-eluting stents have added as much as $1.57 billion to U.S. health costs since their introduction in 2003, U.S. researchers said on Monday.The study offers an illustration of how new technology can drive health costs, ...

Republicans have gambled on a risky course to deny President Barack Obama reelection in 2012: deep long-term spending cuts that could cost them critical support from elderly voters.Republicans owed their November 2010 rout of Democrats in large part to Americans over 65, ...

President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday, calling it the cure to out-of-control government spending.In an almost perfect party-line vote, lawmakers voted 235-193 to approve the non-binding blueprint crafted by ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday laid out his long-term strategy to reduce the U.S. budget deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years.He proposed four steps: savings on the defense budget, elimination of waste in healthcare spending, control of domestic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed cutting ballooning U.S. budget deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years on Wednesday and called for talks with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to address the worsening fiscal woes.Obama, who has been criticized by both Democrats ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1983, a civil servant named Robert Ball worked a political miracle: he convinced Republican Ronald Reagan to raise taxes and Democrat Tip O'Neill to accept trims to Social Security.That was the last time the United States made substantial ...

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Topic: Medicare

Medicare to exhaust funds sooner, report finds

U.S. House committee not to move Medicare plan

Hospitals to get cash boost for better care

U.S. Republicans regroup on Medicare, budget plan

Stents: How new technology drives health costs

Republicans gamble on long-term spending cuts

US House passes Republican spending plan

Obama lays out vision for curing U.S. fiscal woes

Obama targets $4 trillion cut in deficit

As boomers age, a soul-searching budget battle

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