Medicare

‘Medicare for All’ is driving a wedge through labor movement

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates’ plans to provide “Medicare for All” are driving a wedge through the...
23:59 19 February 2022

Feds probing how personal Medicare info gets to marketers

WASHINGTON — A government watchdog is launching a nationwide probe into how marketers may be getting seniors’ personal Medicare information aided by a...
17:45 14 February 2022

Some Democrats fear fallout from Sanders atop the ticket

DENVER — The resurgence of Sen. Bernie Sanders in the presidential nominating process is triggering alarm in the Democratic Party, with many warning t...
23:51 12 February 2022

Bennet ends 2020 bid after poor showing in New Hampshire

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet ended his long-shot presidential bid Tuesday, failing to break out of a crowded Democratic field dominated by other moder...
1:31 12 February 2022

Tenet Healthcare to pay $1.4M to settle cardiac lawsuit

LOS ANGELES — Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its Southern California hospital Desert Regional Medical Center will pay $1.41 million to resolve alleg...
20:08 11 February 2022

Trump budget to face skepticism, overwhelming politics

WASHINGTON — Confronted with the threat of trillion-dollar-plus deficits for as far as the eye can see, President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 tril...
3:27 10 February 2022

AP FACT CHECK: Dems skew health care, Iraq facts in debate

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential contenders stretched beyond the facts on policy and sometimes on their own records Friday in their New Hampshire ...
3:54 8 February 2022

Nevada union warns members of Sanders, Warren health plans

LAS VEGAS — Nevada's most influential union is sending a subtle message to its members discouraging support for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren ov...
22:34 7 February 2022

To win New Hampshire, Warren has to go through Sanders

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Elizabeth Warren's path to victory may have to go through fellow progressive Bernie Sanders. And after Sanders' strong showing in I...
5:23 7 February 2022

Governors warn Trump rule could lead to big Medicaid cuts

WASHINGTON — Governors of both major political parties are warning that a little-noticed regulation proposed by President Donald Trump's administratio...
11:53 6 February 2022

Trump suggests he may be open to entitlement cuts in future

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared to suggest in a television interview Wednesday that he’s willing to consider entitlement cuts in the futu...
21:06 22 January 2022

Major doctors’ group calls for US to assure coverage for all

WASHINGTON — With health care an election-year priority, a major doctors’ organization on Monday called for sweeping government action to guarantee co...
22:02 20 January 2022

Warren-Sanders rift has progressives nervous about fallout

DES MOINES, Iowa — For nearly a year, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders pushed strongly progressive ideas into the Democratic primary spotlight, fee...
19:50 15 January 2022

DOJ sues CVS over ‘stale’ Omnicare prescription refills

The federal government is joining a legal fight against CVS Health that accuses its troubled Omnicare business of routinely filling prescriptions that...
21:57 17 December 2021

Iowa Democrats worry ‘Medicare for All’ hurts key industry

DES MOINES, Iowa — Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren rec...
5:56 14 December 2021

Senators urge Medicare to allow seniors a drug plan do-over

WASHINGTON — Leading senators are urging Medicare to allow seniors concerned about their drug plan pick for next year to switch if they received inacc...
20:43 6 December 2021

Pelosi sets Medicare showdown on drug costs and new benefits

WASHINGTON — The House will hold a showdown vote next week on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices, expanded Thurs...
22:02 5 December 2021

Biden steps up hits on Buttigieg, Warren over health care

MASON CITY, Iowa — Joe Biden is taking aim at Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren during an eight-day tour of Iowa that the former vice president hope...
22:56 3 December 2021

Medicare drug plan finder can steer seniors to higher costs

WASHINGTON — Medicare’s revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, accordin...
23:40 21 November 2021

Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan reignites health care clash

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to gradually move the country to a government-funded health care system has further inflamed the debate over ...
21:13 18 November 2021

Warren pushes back on critics of her health care plan

WAVERLY, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren pushed back against critics of her newly-released plan to phase in implementation of a single-payer health care syste...
22:15 16 November 2021

Warren says getting to ‘Medicare for All’ will take 3 years

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren announced Friday that she won’t immediately push to give every American fully government-funded health care and instead ...
19:54 15 November 2021

Warren health plan departs from US ‘social insurance’ idea

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to pay for "Medicare for All" without raising taxes on the middle class departs from how the U.S. has tradit...
18:47 7 November 2021

Biden accuses Warren of having elitist view of policy

Without naming her, Joe Biden attacked fellow Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday for employing a "condescending" approach t...
1:12 6 November 2021

White House and Pelosi part ways on relief for drug prices

WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday signaled President Donald Trump's blunt thumbs-down to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan allowing Medicare to ...
22:00 5 November 2021

1 in 2 seriously ill Medicare enrollees struggles with bills

WASHINGTON — More than half of seriously ill Medicare enrollees face financial hardships with medical bills, with prescription drug costs the leading ...
21:03 4 November 2021

How Warren and Sanders pay for Medicare for All

WASHINGTON — Here's a look at Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposals to pay for Medicare for All and how they compare to financing options id...
19:02 1 November 2021

The Latest: Vilsack says Warren health care plan unrealistic

WASHINGTON — The Latest on Democrat Elizabeth Warren's "Medicare for All" plan (all times local):
15:41 1 November 2021