MediCare

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired as a city worker, Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the government from the top...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a health care change that President Barack Obama and Republicans both embrace: Expand a current, little-known law so more retirees the government considers well-off are required...

WILLMAR -- The large print on the front of the flier is hard to miss: "Important Medicare information; requires immediate response." On the form inside, Medicare beneficiaries are asked to...

WILLMAR -- Refund checks are starting to trickle through the mail to Medicare recipients whose high prescription drug expenses pushed them into the "doughnut hole" last year. The one-time tax-free...

WILLMAR -- Rice Memorial Hospital provided $18.5 million worth of community benefits in 2008 -- more than 20 percent of the city-owned hospital's operating costs. The total includes benefits such...

WILLMAR -- There used to be a time when Rice Memorial Hospital had 60 or more patients occupying beds on a daily basis. Then the number slid to 50, then...

I am amazed that your headline in the paper on Sept. 10 stated, "Obama calling for unity." Where was the unity in his speech? In my mind he offered an...

Lavonne Reller, in her letter to the editor, is absolutely right. Anyone who doesn't like socialized medicine or a government-sponsored health care plan should cut up their Medicare cards and...

According to the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, the Medicare trust fund will become insolvent in 2017. They received their information from the Medicare trustees' official report, which warns...

WILLMAR -- If patient volume is down, you look for other ways to enhance your revenue and help wring the most from complicated reimbursement formulas. That's one of the strategies...

I'm totally covered by a private supplement and Medicare and I want you to have what I have. If the government's health care reform doesn't include coverage at least as...