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Byline: Jeff Stein and Amy Goldstein Medicare recipients will face automatic benefit cuts starting in 2031 and Social Security won't be able to make full retirement payments starting in 2033 [...]

The president's plan targets Americans earning more than $400,000 a year in an attempt to increase the program's solvency by 25 years. WASHINGTON -- President Biden, as part of his [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage Apparently President Biden and Republicans in Congress agree - Social Security and Medicare will not face cuts during the tense negotiations over the U.S. debt limit. Some [...]

The Republicans who now control the House will soon try to slash Social Security and Medicare. They plan to achieve this by holding the economy hostage, threatening to create a [...]

In the Lede The House and Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund government operations through February 18. While a group of conservative Republican Senators had threatened to hold [...]

Byline: Mark Miller In one of its last moves of 2020, the U.S.Congress punted on a terrific opportunity to help people navigate Medicare enrollment. A little-noticed section of the $2.3 [...]

CONCORD, NH -- The following information was released by the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA): We applaud the U.S. Senate for passing the Medicare Sequester Relief Act which addresses the [...]

Byline: Lauren Ramirez The Long Beach City Council unanimously approved the Federal Legislative Agenda, which includes a 'Medicare for All' resolution to provide all United States residents with health insurance [...]

Byline: Robert King The Trump administration laid out more information Thursday about how providers in financial hardship can get help with repaying loans they got through the Medicare Accelerated and [...]

SACRAMENTO, CA -- The following information was released by the California Hospital Association (CHA): Anne O'Rourke The House and Senate passed, and the President has signed, legislation to modify the [...]

U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has provided $241,471,841 to Medicare providers in the State of [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti;Jon Swaine A Washington state nursing home tied to 40 covid-19 deaths faces a fine of more than $611,000, federal inspectors said, and could also lose Medicare and [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman Did you know that if liberals get their way and pass Medicare-for-all, you'll have to actually pay for health coverage for the first time, when obviously everyone [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is set to run out of money by 2026, as lower tax revenue and higher payments to medical providers have helped weaken [...]

Byline: Steven Pearlstein There is a simple explanation for why Republicans in Congress can't agree, even among themselves, how to replace Obamacare, as demonstrated once again this week. On the [...]

Byline: Paul WaldmanThe 2020 presidential campaign will surely wind up being horrifying in many ways. But the good news is that at the moment, it's featuring a genuine debate about [...]

Byline: Paige Winfield Cunningham THE PROGNOSIS The Trump administration is writing Act Two of its effort to address the country's high prescription drug costs -- and this next move could [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson WASHINGTON - Federal employees and retirees can be excused for feeling as though they're getting soaked by what has been described as a 'perfect storm' hitting their [...]