Topic: Medicare

AP-GfK Poll: Surprising jump in opposition to Obama's health care law after he signs itOpposition to President Barack Obama's health care law jumped after he signed it — a warning to Democrats running for re-election this fall that his victory could become ...

Obama to name new Medicare/Medicaid chief: official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has picked a top health policy expert to run Medicare and Medicaid, an administration official said on Saturday, filling a role at the heart of his historic healthcare reform.Obama plans to nominate Dr. Donald Berwick as ...
NEW LAW'S EFFECTS: AT&T Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash charge in the first quarter. It may also cut health care benefits to current and retired workers.THE REASON: The new law no longer allows companies to claim a tax deduction on ...
Most of us have already heard that the health care reform bill was voted through the House of Representatives and has now been signed by President Obama. The bill softens the proposed cuts to Medicare from $10 billion to $7.8 billion. The ...
Health bill will squeeze industry profits but holds promise for long-term gainsWhen historians write the book on how President Barack Obama's health care overhaul became law, they'll need to leave space for some unlikely advocates: lobbyists for the drug, insurance and hospital ...
Obama's health plan, less audacious than it might have been, still among history's bold actsRarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's ...

The True Costs of the Healthcare Bill

The health care bill that Congress is currently trying to pass (or that may have passed by the time this is read) is designed to reduce the number of uninsured. (1) an excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health care plans that would ...

The True Costs of the Health Care Bill

The health care bill that Congress is currently trying to pass (or that may have passed by the time this is read) is designed to reduce the number of uninsured. (1) an excise tax on so-called "Cadillac" health care plans that would ...
Obama is on the brink of a health care reinvention that none before him could achieveRarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a ...
Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment now seems near.After a year of riotous argument, decades of ...