Medicare

Dean Baker: Medicare and Social Security are safe from austerity hawks - for now. Time to raise a toast, then switch from defense to offense.

Walmart continues to punish workers who fight their mistreatment, which costs taxpayers and the economy.

The projected shortfall in Medicare has fallen by almost 70 percent since 2008.

ProPublica investigates a government program which subsidizes danegerous drugs for the elderly.

On Earth Day, a new alternative government, the Green Shadow Cabinet, was announced. Its over 80 members are leaders in their fields, from medicine to art to activism, and …

While drug companies have been largely able to get away with robbing Americans left and right for the past several decades, more and more people are speaking up about …

Most elderly and disabled people prefer home- or community-based care. It's also cheaper, but state and federal policy often favors the assisted-living industry. Now, activists are speaking up.

Gaius Publius: This is not the full rollback to Medicare drug price negotiation we want, but it's a good start.

In the wake of the news that, this coming Wednesday, a Democratic president will make the rollback of social insurance a key aspect of his budget policy.

In today's On the News segment: Ohio Supreme Court justice says problems with modern-day debtors' prisons can and should be addressed, and more.