Medicare
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Republican Senator Collins: I have very serious concerns on healthcare bill
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Top Senate Democrat Schumer: 50-50 chance Republicans pass healthcare bill
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Mosul celebrates first Eid without Islamic State in years
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Hopes fade in China for 93 missing in landslide
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Oil truck explosion kills 146 people in Pakistan
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Stray cats, killers and no regrets: Duterte's drug-war foe on life in jail
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U.S. top court set to rule on religious rights; travel ban looms
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Philippine envoys talk with Islamist militant leader during brief truce
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Euro zone lenders dampen global banking recovery decade after crisis: BIS
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Big Pharma’s Big Lobby Money Is Preventing Real Reform on Drug Prices
By Eric PianinThere was a time not long ago that the pharmaceutical industry was in a panic over a mounting call for prescription drug price controls and other measures to protect consumers and government agencies...
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How Unscrupulous Hospice Operators Are Stealing Millions From Medicare
By Eric PianinIn the latest in a flurry of high-profile Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases, one of the nation’s largest skilled nursing, senior living and rehabilitation providers has agreed to pay the federal...
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Postal Worker Health Care Reform Would Shift Billions in Costs to Medicare
By Eric PianinThe government would save billions of dollars in health care costs for federal employees and retirees under a U.S. postal service reform act pending on Capitol Hill, although much of the long-term “...
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Medicare Finally Fixes a Huge Security Flaw
New Medicare cards remove a potential source of ID theft.
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10,000 Boomers Turn 65 Every Day. Can Medicare and Social Security Handle It?
By Eric PianinBy the time the last of this generation approaches retirement age in 2029, 18 percent of the U.S. will be at least that age, the Pew Research Center projects. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
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Want to Slash the Deficit? Stop the Billions in Improper Government Payments
By Eric PianinIn a report to Congress this week, U.S. Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro voiced alarm over steadily mounting government overpayments for Medicare, Medicaid and Earned Income Tax Credits that are...
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White House Insists Taxes Can Be Cut While Leaving Medicare Untouched
By Rob GarverIn a brief concession to economic reality, Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday admitted that the tax plan proposed by the Trump administration last week would increase the federal deficit. But he...
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Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
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Budget Chief Admits Trump Can’t Wipe Out $20 Trillion in Debt in 8 Years
By Eric PianinIf ever there was a campaign promise that rang bogus from the start, it was President Trump’s vow to wipe out the entire national debt – now inching close to $20 trillion – within eight years.
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Is Trump’s Pick to Head the FDA Too Close to Big Pharma?
By Eric PianinPresident Trump has been pressing for proposals to lower prescription drug prices to the point that he has begun conferring with a senior Democratic lawmaker on ways to prevent the pharmaceutical...