Medicare drug subsidy application deadline extended (Business Insurance)
WASHINGTON The deadline for employers to complete the final reconciliation of their applications for the Medicare Retiree Drug Subsidy has been extended by three months for plan years ending in 2006.

Medicare in Montana: Baucus proposes fix to prevent cuts to primary-care doctors (Missoulian)
HELENA - As the clock ticks on a July 1 deadline for cutting Medicare payments to physicians by 10 percent, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., says he's crafting a solution to block the cuts and beef up payments to primary-care doctors.

Social Security, Medicare in trouble (KING5 Seattle)
Trustees for the government's two biggest benefit programs warned that Social Security and Medicare are facing "enormous challenges" with the threat to Medicare's solvency far more severe.