October 26, 2021
President Joe Biden expressed major doubts that adding new benefits to Medicare will make it in a more than trillion-dollar infrastructure package being negotiated in Congress. Read More
October 26, 2021
Britta Foster and Minerva Tiznado are in different leagues as far as health care is concerned. Foster, who married into... View Article Read More
October 26, 2021
Democrats are haggling over whether to drop two of the most popular elements of their social spending bill as negotiations... View Article Read More
October 19, 2021
Medicare open enrollment kicked off Friday with more Medicare Advantage plans to choose from but with renewed criticism that insurers... View Article Read More
October 14, 2021
Large majorities of American voters across all political stripes favor letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, and most don't buy into the argument that high drug prices are needed for drug companies to invest in new research, according to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Read More
October 14, 2021
New data show that 7 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries didn’t compare plans during the 2018 open enrollment period, even though plans can change in their benefits and costs. Read More
October 12, 2021
Nine out of 10 Medicare Advantage members are enrolled in plans that earned the government's highest quality marks for 2022, according to new federal data. Read More
October 12, 2021
Donna Weiner looks at Medicare’s prescription drug program from two different points of view. As a participant, she wants to pay less... View Article Read More
October 12, 2021
As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of... View Article Read More
October 5, 2021
Leadership may drop efforts to have the government directly negotiate the prices for medicines in private insurance plans and make fewer drugs subject to negotiations in Medicare, among the changes under consideration. Read More