Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

There is little research on the causes of AlzheimerÃ¢â¬â¢s, according to a recent report from the Food and Drug Administration. (AP file)

Medicare spending on Alzheimer’s to explode as boomers age: Analysis

Robert King · July 20, 2015 2:36 pm

Medicare has allowed government to assert unprecedented control over the doctor-patient relationship.

Medicare’s midlife crisis: Catastrophic finances pit doctors against patients

David Hogberg · July 20, 2015 4:01 am

Demonstrators protest against cuts to Medicare, and Medicaid. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Poll shows Americans oppose cutbacks to Medicare and Medicaid

Robert King · July 17, 2015 2:27 pm

In this Aug. 6, 2014 photo, Dr. Jared Bernard, a lieutenant commander and trauma surgeon in the U.S. Navy, helps perform surgery on a gunshot victim alongside medical personnel at Cook County's Stroger Hospital in Chicago. A program launched in late spring has Navy doctors, nurses and medics training at the hospital because patients arriving there often have the same types of wounds that are common in combat. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Surgeon scorecards could inform patients

Robert King · July 15, 2015 4:01 am

President Obama said Monday that neither Social Security nor Medicare is in "crisis," and that the Affordable Care Act has helped. (AP Photo)

Obama: Obamacare saved Medicare

Nicole Duran · July 13, 2015 7:42 pm

A proposed rule announced Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would revise the requirements that nursing homes have to meet to participate in the federal programs. (AP Photo)Â

Obama administration announces nursing home reforms

Robert King · July 13, 2015 6:32 pm

Dr. Michael Paul, with the Pediatric Mobile Health Unit of Loyola University Medical Center, talks with fourth-grader Bennita Correa after her physical exam for incoming fifth-graders outside David Burnham Elementary School May 11, 2004 in Cicero, Ill. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

What’s next for the Cures bill

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 12, 2015 4:01 am

The legislation provides more funding to both the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, along with dozens of reforms intended to speed up the development and approval of cures. (AP Photo)Â

House passes major medical cures bill

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 10, 2015 4:17 pm

Sarah Palin is once again arguing the government will create "death panels" by paying doctors for offering end-of-life counseling. (AP Photo)

Sarah Palin resurrects ‘death panels’

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 10, 2015 12:12 pm

The president has picked Andy Slavitt to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP File Photo)

Obama nominates top Medicare and Medicaid official

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 10, 2015 12:31 am

Lou Briones rests his injured knee for a moment as he hobbles down Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP Photo)Â

Payments for joint replacements would be based on quality

Robert King · July 9, 2015 10:49 pm

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and dozens of others Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at lifting federal restrictions on abortion that have been in place for decades. (AP Photo)Â

Democrats propose bill to lift decades-old abortion restrictions

Elizabeth Potter · July 9, 2015 9:24 pm