Arizona Groups Demand Sinema 'Stop Obstructing' on Medicare Expansion

73% of voters across all parties in Sinema's state support allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. 79% support using those savings to provide hearing, dental, and vision benefits to people enrolled in the program.

Private Equity Is Sucking Up More and More Medicare Cash

Research has found that private equity investors reduce competition and negatively impact patient outcomes.

Opinion | On Very Serious People, Climate and Children

Why don’t those who used to obsess over debt seem to care about the future?

160 Patient Advocates Demand Medicare Negotiation in Build Back Better Package

"We're confident that inclusion of comprehensive drug pricing reforms in the reconciliation package will lower prices, save lives, and ensure continued development of innovative new drugs."

Medicare Expansion Clashes With Health Care for the Poor as Budget Bill Shrinks

Under pressure to cut the bill’s cost, Democrats disagree over whether to offer more benefits to older Americans or to cover more of the working poor.

Opinion | Hospitals and Health Care Workers, Overwhelmed by Covid

Burned-out health professionals and overwhelmed hospitals. Also: The child tax credit; counterterrorism; Democrats and taxes; “Medicare for all.”

Big Pharma’s Democrats

Three House Dems working to kill drug price legislation raked in roughly $1.6 million from pharma donors — and the top aide for one of them is now a pharma lobbyist.

The “Advantage” War Against Medicare 

Medicare Advantage is a massive, trillion-dollar rip-off, of the federal government and of taxpayers, and of many of the people buying the so-called

Biden Administration Goes Bigger on Cutting Drug Prices

The administration endorses a proposal for the government to negotiate on prices for all U.S. purchasers, not just Medicare.

Opinion | Medicare Advantage Is a For-Profit Scam. Time to End It.

"The simple solution to the Medicare Advantage problem is to kill off the program. It was just a Trojan horse to privatize Medicare, and its presence will make Medicare for All even harder to implement."

House Democrats Want Medicare Expansion in Budget Reconciliation Bill

125 House Democrats introduced legislation last Friday that would lower the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60.

House Dems Introduce Bill to Lower Medicare Age to 60

"Lowering the Medicare eligibility age will not only be life-changing for at least 23 million people, it will also be lifesaving for so many across America," says Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Will Hearing Aids Ever Be Hip?

A new generation of more affordable and stylish hearing aids could help preserve mind, life and limb for millions.

Social Security is projected to be insolvent a year earlier than previously forecast.

Annual government reports on the solvency of the programs underscored the questions about the long-term viability of Social Security and Medicare.

Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care

In the large budget bill now in Congress, supporters of the measure see a rare opportunity to advance a popular policy.

Racial Inequities Persist in Health Care Despite Expanded Insurance

A series of studies in an influential medical journal takes a close look at longstanding gaps in medical care.

Jayapal Says There's Nothing 'Moderate' About Tanking Medicare Expansion, Climate Action

"We can't call people moderate Democrats if they vote against child care, paid leave, healthcare, and addressing climate change."

We Must Fight Privatization of Medicare and Medicaid to Win Single-Payer

It’s time the U.S. had a health care system that operates as a public good, free from the demands of profit-making.