GOP Medicare reforms need better marketing
Premium support is at the heart of GOP efforts to modernize Medicare before it evaporates, as soon as 2020.

What Republicans Would Rather Spend Money on Than Medicare
COMMENTARY | Medicare, along with Social Security, is an important part of America's social safety net. It's a promise to today's young workers that they won't be tossed aside once they've outlived their usefulness; that their medical bills will be taken care of when they're old and in poor health, and can't work or pay for their own insurance anymore. And it's a program that most young workers ...

Monitor your Medicare costs
If you're enrolled in a Medicare Part D plan and you're being overcharged for the prescription drugs you take, it can throw you prematurely into the infamous "doughnut hole."

More Senior Citizens Using Free Medicare Preventive Care; New Push by CMS Begins
June 23, 2011 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new report showing that more than 5 million Americans with traditional Medicare - or nearly one in six people with Medicare - took advantage of one or more of the recommended preventive benefits now available for free, thanks to the Affordable Care Act. At the same time the agency launched a campaign to urge more ...