Sen. Rodham Clinton Talks About Health Reform, Medicare Drug Benefit With AARP (Medical News Today)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at a meeting on Tuesday urged AARP to join her in attempts to fix the new Medicare prescription drug benefit and to persuade the House to pass a Senate-approved bill promoting health care information technology, CQ HealthBeat reports. She said her larger goal is to make the health care system more efficient with information technology, preventive care and

Health care crisis could be pivotal in 2008 election (Salem Statesman Journal)
WASHINGTON With costs soaring and millions of baby boomers about to go on Medicare, health care and how to pay for it is poised to emerge as the top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Medicare Part D: New entitlement is a 'disaster' (The Pueblo Chieftain Online)
A rare bit of good news recently trickled out about Medicare s new prescription-drug entitlement. The entitlement will cost $678 billion over 10 years, rather than the $737 billion previously projected. The reason for this savings ? It s partly that fewer seniors have signed up for the entitlement than the 33 million the government expected. And out of the 24 million now enrolled, only 3.6