More than 900 cases alleging that government contractors and drugmakers have defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars are languishing in a backlog that has built up over the past decade because the Justice Department cannot keep pace with the surge in charges brought by whistle-blowers,.
Barack Obama keeps trying to end the wars over culture and religion, and good for him. The 1960s are so 40 years ago. But Obama's opponents, as well as some of his friends, won't let him do it.
According to Jane Gross, the growing population of elderly drivers is forcing some difficult conversations in families: Thirty-six percent of adult children polled by the Web site Caring.com and the National Safety Council said that talking to their parents about.
Blog: Oncology lobbyists explain to Dems what happened on the Medicare vote
Early last month, Jeanne Fair, 62, got her first hot meals delivered to her home in this lake town in the sparsely populated southwestern part of the state. Then after two deliveries the meals stopped because gas prices had made the delivery too expensive.
- your doctor or your Medicare Advantage plan?
You can get out of paying premiums for Medicare if you're living overseas -- but if you move back to the U.S., restarting those benefits could cost you.
Mississippi GOP Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker lashed out at what they term a “misinformation” campaign being waged against...
Congress may be home for the 4th of July recess, but special interests never rest. The American Medical Association and America’s Health Insurance Plans — the big groups representing doctors and insurers, respectively — are both rolling out TV ads this week in the fight over Medicare.
(CNSNews.com) - It must be an election year, because Democrats are once again raising the Social Security issue to scare older Americans.
The classic concept of how to force someone to think for themselves rather than mindlessly obey authority is to have two equally powerful authority figures demand that the individual do the completely opposite actions (an example: having two top generals on either side of a low ranking soldier, one demanding he sit down, and the other demanding he stand).
Strange, but True: Unusual Strategies for Claiming Social Security Benefits (PDF; 68 KB) Source: Center for Retirement Research at Boston College From e-mail: Three claiming strategies have recently received a lot of press attention: “Borrow and Invest” - an individual can claim benefits and then reclaim at a later date, paying back the money received (without interest) during [.
Obama has a plan to preserve the Social Security fund without raising the retirement age or cutting program benefits. His notion? To impose a Social Security tax increase and create a a “doughnut hole” where earnings between $102,000 and $250,000 are exempt from additional taxes.
By now, almost everyone must realize that their Social Security numbers have to be protected to help prevent ID theft. Yet, incredibly, Medicare includes the full Social Security numbers of nearly 44 .
We reported last week that the Texas Medical Association had rescinded its endorsement of John Cornyn after he voted to put insurance profits before patients and doctors. We also wrote about the many Border area doctors who are angry at Cornyn for breaking his promise.
Two powerful health trade groups will begin airing dueling ads this week in their fight over Medicare, hoping to influence Congress as lawmakers face pressure to reverse scheduled cuts in doctor fees.
Tulsaarea doctors are wondering if this might be the first year since 2002 that Congress wont intervene to avoid a cut to Medicare payments to doctors since lawmakers failed to pass legislation before leaving for their July Fourth recess.
Measuring calcium deposits in the heart's arteries can help predict overall death risk in American adults, even when they are elderly, according to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
A 75-year-old man is being held on felony charges after municipal police say he led them on a high-speed chase in which four patrol cars and five other vehicles were damaged.
A man posing as a contractor attacked an 81-year-old Jackson resident this morning at her home in Village Apartments just before noon, according to Jackson police.
An elderly woman was injured and hospitalized Friday after an accident involving a float in the Independence Day Parade in north suburban Niles.
Ontario should look to the example set by Nordic countries and turn its understaffed, institutional long-term care homes into community homes, geriatric experts say.
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