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May 23, 2012
Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equity firm he co-founded and declaring he's a far more qualified steward of the economy than President Barack Obama.
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By Kevin Freking |
May 22, 2012
Richard Carmona arrived in Washington a political novice in 2002 and left four years later scarred and frustrated. He didn't go quietly.
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By Andy Stonehouse |
May 11, 2012
Ambassador Karen Hughes said her experience in the Bush White House tells her Mitt Romney will be the right guy for the job; Obama, not so much.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
May 10, 2012
Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found.
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
May 8, 2012
It's the hottest trend in job-based health insurance: plans that give you a personal savings account for medical bills but also require you to pay a hefty share of costs before coverage kicks in. But there's a warning flag, a risk that workers will forgo needed care, even preventive services...
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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
May 3, 2012
Medicare's payment system, the unseen but vital network that handles 100 million monthly claims, could freeze up if President Barack Obama's health care law is summarily overturned, the administration has quietly informed the courts.
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By Charles Babington |
April 27, 2012
The Supreme Court, suddenly at the heart of presidential politics, is preparing what could be blockbuster rulings on health care and immigration shortly before the fall election.
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By Sam Hananel |
April 23, 2012
The Senate began debate Monday on a Republican effort to overturn new labor regulations that make it easier and quicker for unions to hold workplace elections. The White House immediately threatened to veto it.
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By Calvin Woodward |
April 12, 2012
Mitt Romney has come up with an "amazing statistic" and Republicans inside and outside his presidential campaign are doing their utmost to spread it around: "92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women."
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By Kathryn Mayer |
April 10, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will increase deficits over the next decade by between $346 and $527 billion, according to a new study by a Medicare trustee.
