Minnesota, National Long Term Care Advocates: Pending Bush Medicare Cut Hurts State s Rural Seniors (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
New Study: Rural Seniors Medicare-Financed Nursing Home Care Slashed $3.7 Million in Year Ahead; Federal Lawmakers, In Minnesota This Week, Urged to Publicly Oppose Cuts to Seniors Medicare Funding

Low-income seniors miss out on vital assistance (El Paso Times)
The programs designed to provide assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries, such as the Medicare Prescription Drug Extra Help Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) and Medicare Savings Programs (MPS), are seriously flawed and must be fixed.

Pelosi, Obama, Hillary Clinton edging out Ted Kennedy as favorite bogeyman of conservatives (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
WASHINGTON - Republicans have raised many millions of dollars over the past three decades just invoking the name of Ted Kennedy. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was their poster child for liberals, the quintessential Washington tax-and-spender, a left-wing caricature to his conservative detractors.

Medicare could fail, Leavitt says (Deseret Morning News)
The federal government is on the verge of breaking one of its oldest promises to its citizens health care for the elderly U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told a conference of seniors during a Wednesday visit to Salt Lake.