Topic: Medicare
President Barack Obama says Medicare will exist for many more years, thanks to new legislation that helped put the health care program for America's seniors on stronger financial footing. Seniors already are benefiting from that new health care law, said Obama, noting ...
Despite earlier support, aid to states, jobless and doctors' Medicare pay faces Senate hurdlesA bill providing jobless benefits and tens of billions of dollars in new aid for states and Medicare payments for doctors hangs by a thread in Congress despite lingering ...
The House on Friday voted to extend unemployment benefits to people mired in joblessness but cut off help with health insurance for the newly unemployed. Money to assist with health insurance was among the tens of billions of dollars trimmed from programs ...
House passes pared-back tax and spending bill extending benefits for long-term joblessThe House has adopted a measure renewing unemployment benefits for people who have been without a job for at least six months. The jobless benefits are in a legislative grab bag ...
$18 billion jobless benefits bill passes the Senate, may quickly clear the HouseCongress is sending President Barack Obama an $18 billion bill to restore unemployment benefits for people who have been out of a job for months and resume full Medicare payments ...
Americans paying less taxes this year despite Tax Day rhetoric, increases by struggling statesYou wouldn't know it by the Tax Day rhetoric, but Americans are paying lower taxes this year, even with increases passed by many states to balance their budgets. Don't ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans believe tax hikes are OK if you're making more than $250,000, a policy proposed by President Barack Obama, but hands off Medicare and Social Security, a poll released on Monday found. The Quinnipiac University poll found that ...
More incentive on the part of the government to have inflationLike many of you, the passage of the healthcare bill wasn’t met with the popping of champagne in my house. I found myself chanting “Uncle Sam, Uncle Sham” as the day wore ...
Health care bill would increase wage taxes, add new levy on investments for high earnersHigh-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill. For the first ...
Candidates for governor face risks by offering, withholding solutions Being broke is never fun, as Nevadas governor and the men who would replace him can attest.Brian Sandoval, the retired federal judge challenging Gibbons in the Republican primary, has proposed leasing our public ...
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Medicare Sleuths
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Social Security Medicare
Social Security Administration Commissioner Michael J. Astrue, left, accompanied by Health and ...AP News - -
Medicare Fraud Arrests
Attorney General Eric Holder, right, announces 36 arrests in Medicare scams during ...AP News -
