medicare

washingtonpost.com - As they gear up to sell the new Medicare drug benefit to 43 million seniors, federal health officials are circulating a draft handbook that elder advocates and insurers say is sprinkled with omissions, inaccuracies and material that could make an already complicated endeavor...

washingtonpost.com - The two independent trustees overseeing Social Security and Medicare broke with the Bush administration's trustees yesterday, saying Medicare's financial problems far exceed Social Security's and are in urgent need of attention...