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President Joe Biden speaks as first lady Jill Biden looks on at a Friendsgiving event with service members and their families in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 25 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign event, Sept. 27, 2024, in Walker, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

A look at how some of Trump’s picks to lead health agencies could help carry out Kennedy’s overhaul

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday picked television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump picks Dr. Oz to serve as Medicare and Medicaid administrator

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Broken Medicare health care system illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Congress must begin fixing broken Medicare physician payment system

By Brian Darling

The Medicare website is seen on a computer in New York on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rachel Leathe)

Medicare Part B premiums to rise 6% in 2025, agency says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Gabe Amo, Rhode Island Democratic candidate for the U.S. House, greets people during a campaign stop at a cafe, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Democrat Gabe Amo, Rhode Island’s first Black representative in Congress, wins reelection

By Michael Casey - Associated Press

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, right, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, left show an agreement, participating in a program designed to improve health care and lower costs across all health care payers, including Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers, that Moore signed on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland becomes first state to join new federal health care program

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

'Medicare for All' and the federal budget illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Are amnesty and ‘Medicare for All’ feasible?

By Vance Ginn

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris chats with the hosts during a commercial break at The View, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in New York. From left are Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Harris, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris proposing new Medicare benefit to cover senior home care costs

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This combination of photos shows Vice President Kamala Harris, left, on Aug. 7, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

‘Totally unrealistic’: Trump, Harris bust budget with their tax and spending plans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A person walks along the Las Vegas Strip devoid of the usual crowds after casinos have been ordered to shut down due to the coronavirus, March 18, 2020, in Las Vegas. Loneliness in America can be deadly. In May 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared it an American epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking upon the population of the United States. “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows," he said, “and that’s not right.” (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Less-educated, poor people face a future of personal isolation without help, researchers say

By Emma Ayers - The Washington Times

Democrats and Medicare costs lies illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Why older adults and taxpayers are paying for Democrats’ lies

By Rep. Brett Guthrie

Broken Medicare payment system illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Congress must fix Medicare’s broken payment system

By Christian Josi

One of the empty beds in the Alliance Healthcare System hospital in Holly Springs, Miss., is seen on Feb. 29, 2024. The medical facility was initially approved by the federal government as a rural emergency hospital in March, 2023, requiring closing all inpatient beds and providing 24/7 emergency care. However, they have been denied the status and must now transition back to a full-service hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Inflation, Ozempic predicted to jack up health care costs

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

White House says deals struck to cut prices of popular Medicare drugs that cost $50 billion yearly

By Amanda Seitz and Zeke Miller - Associated Press