Wendell Potter: Are Seniors Paying Attention to Paul Ryan's Plan for Medicare?
Tea Party members who railed against health care reform because of the spin they were sold about how "Obamacare" would affect Medicare played a big...

Medicare, lower taxes don't mix
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. touts his 2012 federal budget on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. / J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press

Gap in Medicare coverage slowly closing
COLUMBIA Officially, the chasm in Medicare Part D's prescription coverage is called the coverage gap. However, thousands of senior citizens in Missouri know it by another name the "donut hole." Beginning last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implemented a plan to close the "donut hole" by 2020 in several phases. In 2010, roughly 82,000 beneficiaries in Missouri reached ...