Medicare
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Lawsuit saying Twitter aided Islamic State thrown out by U.S. appeals court
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Boeing ends Wall St.'s slide, Fed caution limits gains
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U.S. food distributors allege Tyson Foods, rivals fixed chicken prices
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Democrats press Facebook, Twitter again to probe Russia links to Republican memo
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France to name and shame worst cases of tax fraud - PM
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Yellen's swan song to markets
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France to name and shame worst cases of tax fraud: PM
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European shares slip at end of strong month
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U.S. prosecutors drop corruption case against Sen. Menendez
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Paul Ryan's Fiscal Legacy: Lots of Red Ink
House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Wednesday that he won’t seek re-election this year and will retire at the end of his term in January, becoming the most prominent in a wave of Republican lawmakers...
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How Insurers Are Gaming the Medicare System
By Michael RaineyInsurance companies that operate Medicare Advantage plans can collect bonus payments from the federal government worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but only for plans that receive top ratings. In...
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The $82 Trillion Problem Washington Has Stopped Talking About
Now that “the anti-deficit hysteria of the Great Recession has given way to a backlash of complacency,” lawmakers and the public are ignoring “an $82 trillion avalanche of Social Security and...
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Are Democrats Now Working to Repeal and Replace Obamacare?
By Michael RaineyThe Center for American Progress – “a think tank that is the closest thing to a Democratic government-in-exile,” according to Paul Waldman of The Washington Post – released a universal health care...
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Why Health Care Spending Is Headed Higher
By Michael RaineyHealth care spending in the U.S. is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent from 2017 through 2026, faster than the rate of GDP growth. As a result, health care spending will...
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How Trump’s Budget Would Cut the Social Safety Net
As a candidate, President Trump said he would not cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. But his 2019 budget proposal seeks to reduce spending on all three programs and other parts of the social...
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Trump's Plan to Lower Prescription Drug Prices — and Why It Won't Do Much
By Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health NewsPresident Donald Trump’s new budget proposal flirts with combating high prescription drug prices, but industry watchers say the tweaks to Medicare and Medicaid do little more than dance around the...
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Paul Ryan Throws in the Towel on Entitlement Reform
By Michael RaineySpeaker of the House Paul Ryan has long wanted to restructure entitlement programs, and there was some speculation that Republicans might try to reform Medicare and Social Security in the wake of...
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Why the GOP’s Debt-Financed Tax Cuts Could Come Back to Haunt Them
Republicans keep saying that their tax cut plan will pay for itself, despite a profound lack of evidence to support that argument. Even the most optimistic study, from the conservative-leaning Tax...
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How the GOP Tax Bill Could Trigger $25 Billion in Medicare Cuts in 2018
As they look to advance their tax bills, Congressional Republicans will have to work through — or around — a few potentially problematic budget rules. One is the Senate’s Byrd Rule, which says that...