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Trump Budget Would Slash Medicare and Social Security While Boosting Pentagon
President Donald Trump is expected to unveil a $4.8 trillion blueprint that includes hundreds of billions in cuts.
Home Health Care Is Suddenly Harder to Come by for Medicare Patients
Home health agencies across the country are grappling with a significant change in how Medicare pays for services.
Trump Signals He Will Seek to Cut Social Security and Medicare If Re-Elected
The admission came in a CNBC interview at the Davos Forum, which Trump is attending with other global elites.
States Can’t Protect Themselves From the Harmful Effects of ACA Repeal
The Trump administration and 18 state attorneys general are asking courts to declare the entire ACA unconstitutional.
$11 Million Medicare Tool Gives Seniors Wrong Insurance Information
Consumer advocates have identified cases of malfunction for a cost-finding tool redesigned by the Trump administration.
Dialysis Patients Panic as Financial “Life Raft” Becomes Unmoored
American Kidney Fund is threatening to pull out of California because of a law that would cut dialysis industry profits.
Here’s How the US Could Afford “Medicare for All”
Simply strike the words “who are age 65 or over” from the 1965 amendments to the Social Security Act.
Trump’s Executive Order to “Save” Medicare Will Likely Push More Cuts
Trump's executive order could mean attempted cuts to the crucial program.
Trump Considering Slashing Medicare and Social Security as “Second-Term Project”
During his 2016 campaign, Trump vowed not to touch Social Security or Medicare if he became president.
Lawsuit Seeks to Let Medicare Patients Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage
Medicare’s nursing home benefit is available only to those admitted to the hospital for three consecutive days.