Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

The study offered a detailed look at the impact of baby boomers on Medicaid -- which offers nursing home and home care coverage for seniors. (Getty File Photo)

Gov’t to pick up baby boomers’ healthcare tab

Robert King · July 29, 2015 4:01 am

Enrollment in Obamacare exchanges and Medicaid expansion in various states are two factors that contributed to the increased spending. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Healthcare spending rises due to Obamacare, better economy

Robert King · July 28, 2015 8:20 pm

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, right, joins other members of Congress at a 20-year birthday party celebration for Medicaid and Medicare, July 30, 1985. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Happy anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid. Now what’s next?

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 27, 2015 4:01 am

Prescription for cheaper drugs contested

Robert King · July 26, 2015 4:01 am

Anti-abortion advocates and members of "And Then There Were None," picket in front of a Planned Parenthood location in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. (AP Photo)

GOP candidates: We’ve already defunded Planned Parenthood

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 25, 2015 4:01 am

"If you want your grandmother to die, vote Republican. If you want your grandfather to die, vote Republican,"Â AP Action's founderÂ Erica PayneÂ wrote. "It is less expensive than hiring a hitman."Â (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Liberal group: Bush’s Medicare plan like ‘hiring a hitman’

Gabby Morrongiello · July 24, 2015 12:40 am

"Nothing has to change for current beneficiaries. I'm against anything that's bad for my mother."Â (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Medicare pays more for drugs than other programs

Robert King · July 23, 2015 3:04 pm

The fund Medicare uses to pay hospitals covers hospital insurance benefits, but does not affectÂ Medicare Part B, which covers payments to physicians, or Medicare Part C,Â which is commonly known as Medicare Advantage.Â (Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images)

Medicare’s funding well to dry up in 2030

Robert King · July 23, 2015 4:01 am

"[V]ery recent polling shows the governor easily beating Hillary Clinton in the Buckeye State; no other Republican candidate can boast that key point." (Getty Photo)

The Right isn’t writing off John Kasich

Ryan Lovelace · July 23, 2015 4:01 am

A pensioner reads a newspaper on September 8, 2014 in Walsall, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Social Security disability program to go bust in 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 5:43 pm

JohnÂ Kasich expanded Medicaid in his state under Obamacare, much to the displeasure of conservatives. (AP Photo)Â

Club for Growth issues warning about Kasich before presidential campaign launch

Ryan Lovelace · July 21, 2015 9:00 am

As taxpayers fill out returns leading up to Tax Day on Wednesday, they are for the first time encountering questions about the Obamacare tax. (AP Photo)Â

Where did billions in Obamacare grants go?

Robert King · July 20, 2015 9:18 pm