Medicare

Since they started actively campaigning in January to become the Democratic nominee for president, the Democrats have been in a bidding war to widen the scope of government – dramatically.

A New Jersey man who defrauded Medicare by using the promise of ice cream to lure senior citizens into genetic testing was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison.

Such a proposal could face stiff resistance from congressional Republicans.

The big question is: When should you start collecting Social Security?

Drugmakers will be required to reveal the prices of their prescription medicines in those ever present TV ads, the Trump administration is set to announce on Wednesday, even as some insured patients can pay thousands of dollars for critical medications.

Changes to the U.S. health care system should not underscore the importance of personal care.

Medicare Advantage payments are expected to reach $250 billion this year.

The cost comes from insurers raising monthly premium prices on Medicare plan holders.

Budget experts for Congress say the Trump administration's plan to reduce out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries will cost taxpayers another $177 billion from 2020-2029.

Congressional budget experts say moving to a government-run health care system like "Medicare for All" would be complicated and potentially disruptive for Americans.

The pharmacy chain on Wednesday said higher brand name drug costs drove a nearly 35 percent revenue increase in the first quarter of 2019.

The two drugmakers are the latest companies to pay penalties for allegedly violating the False Claims Act

Social security insolvency may result in a tax hike.

Feds said it was one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history.

Feds: $1B Medicare scam peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centers.

Insurers and PBMs say the rule would hike premium costs for seniors.

The federal government prohibits drug companies from paying copays for patients on their treatments.

A soft default is the least bad option. And we ought to bite the bullet now before we rack up even more debt.

Sanders and the other socialist sympathizers running for president must be clear-eyed about the limits of the federal bureaucracy that they are all too eager to put in charge of virtually every aspect of American life.

Research shows that work requirements for welfare recipients who are able to work have powerful impacts on those receiving benefits, taxpayers and the economy.