GOP Senator Says Liberals Lie on Medicare
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An author of last year's law creating Medicare prescription drug benefits says liberal groups are undermining the program by spreading false information about it, and he wants them to stop. But the organizations will have none of it.
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The people who answer Medicare&#39;s telephone help line gave accurate responses to questions less than two-thirds of the time, according to a congressional investigation made public Wednesday.
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President George W. Bush's surgeon general nominee, Dr. James Holsinger, disputed claims by critics that he holds "anti-gay" views under tough questioning by Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
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The New York senator weighs in on whether Republicans would gain an advantage.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson used a government event Wednesday to criticize Sen. John Kerry for his recent attacks on the Bush administration&#39;s management of Medicare.
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WASHINGTON -- With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a powerful Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it let evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal be destroyed.
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Senate Republicans equipped their rank and file on Tuesday with campaign-style material on Social Security that touts President Bush's call for voluntary personal accounts for younger workers but omits mention of companion cuts in guaranteed future benefits.
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Some Democrats in Congress, looking at the 17 percent jump in Medicare premiums due to go into effect next year, say there ought to be legislation delaying the increase for a year.
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President Bush chided Sen. John Kerry and fellow Democrats on Monday for asserting that Republicans will undermine Social Security, calling the strategy
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A Louisiana legislator said Wednesday he is being investigated by the FBI and claimed it may be because he wouldn't give agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William Jefferson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
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Democrat John Kerry criticized President Bush on Saturday for burying a record jump in Medicare premiums in a pre-holiday announcement that came during a rush of news at home and abroad.
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J ohn Kerry&#39;s relentless attacks against the president&#39;s Medicare reform and prescription drug bill are rather brazen for a 19-year senator who didn&#39;t even care enough to show up for 36 out of 38 votes on the historic bill, including final passage.
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Key Republicans in Congress on  Sunday questioned White House assertions that the Social  Security system was in crisis, one of President Bush's  justifications for acting now on private accounts, and said new  taxes should be considered.
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The nation's insurance commissioners say the Bush administration has made misleading statements about the new Medicare drug benefit in an effort to persuade people to sign up.
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Mark B. McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is understandably defensive about the study showing that 29 percent of beneficiaries are likely to receive incorrect or incomplete information when they call the
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The Bush administration illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare law, and as a penalty, the former head of the Medicare agency, Thomas A. Scully
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An old lawsuit claiming Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn, an obstetrician, sterilized a woman without her consent and accusations that he committed Medicaid fraud have emerged as major issues in his tightly contested race against Democratic Rep. Brad Carson.