Retirees lobbied on Medicare proposal
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare is trying to drum up local opposition to a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare. A staffer for the Washington, D.C.-based group has been speaking about the proposal during visits this week to five retirement centers in Fort Wayne.

National Democrats target Mandel, Coughlin and Blackwell over Medicare
The Democratic Party wants three Ohio Republicans to renounce a GOP Medicare voucher plan. Fat chance.

4th District Rep. Jim Himes Support for Medicare, but fair reforms are needed
If anyone had any ideas that U.S. Rep. Jim Himes (D-4) was going to do away with Medicare, he has put those to rest. As part of a series of meetings with senior groups throughout the district, Mr. Himes, a Cos Cob resident, spoke recently at the Greenwich Senior Center. He discussed the importance of paying down the debt the country faces as well as improving efficiency in health care, but that ...