Medicare

The Maryland Hospital Association said Friday that jobs may be in jeopardy if a state commission approves a plan that would make hospitals absorb all of the 2 percent Medicare cuts required under federal sequestration. The board of the Health Services...

Tinker Field revisited The Sports section recently published an article on the history of Tinker Field ("Tinker Field has seen glory days," March 31). I have special memories of that place. After No. 42, Jackie Robinson retired from Major League...

President Obama won't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and AARP have been howling all week about something they expect to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters? He's...

Lower government payments for private Medicare services and prescriptions for older people dragged down UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s first-quarter profits, the company said Thursday. Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hemsley also warned during a conference...

The state's hospitals would absorb all of the 2 percent Medicare cuts required by federal sequestration under a proposal released Thursday by the state panel that sets hospital rates. The recommendation by the staff of the Health Services Cost Review...

With pressure building on the president and Congress to bring down deficits, one of the obvious places for them to search for savings is one of the biggest items in the federal budget, Medicare. The program, which spent more than $500 billion in 2012,...

Congressman John Conyers, D-Mich., recently introduced a bill that would create government-run health care in the United States. This same proposal for a single-payer system has been put forth in every Congress since 2003, and like all of those previous...

As we look for ways to get a better handle on Medicare costs, policymakers should focus on getting more value for Medicare's dollars while protecting the 49 million seniors and people with disabilities who rely on the program. Nowhere is there more...

The president and a few other prominent Democrats are openly suggesting that Social Security payments be reduced by applying a lower adjustment for inflation, and that Medicare be means-tested. This is even before Democrats have begun formal budget...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military's health care system. Despite dire warnings from three...

From 27 minutes in Lake Forest to 68 minutes in Park Ridge, the waiting time in north suburban emergency rooms ranges from minutes below to more than half an hour above the national average, according to statistics on the Medicare website and from the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberals' loud objections to White House proposals for slowing the growth of huge social programs make it clear that neither political party puts a high priority on reducing the deficit, despite much talk to the contrary. For...