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Harry Potter politics

By Frank Vernuccio Jr.

In this March 22, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump gives Medicare plans new tool to squeeze Big Pharma

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Ambulance service officials plead guilty to fraud

Associated Press

FILE - In this July 28, 2014, file photo, Public Trustee Charles Blahous speaks as then-Treasury Secretary and Managing Trustee Jacob Lew, left, and then-Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, right, listen during a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington. A new study says ‘Medicare for all’ would raise government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years. “Enacting something like ‘Medicare for all’ would be a transformative change in the size of the federal government,” said Charles Blahous, the study’s author. Blahous was a senior economic adviser to former Republican President George W. Bush and a public trustee of Social Security and Medicare during the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Study: ‘Medicare for all’ projected to cost $32.6 trillion

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this March 22, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump’s top Medicare official slams ‘Medicare for All’

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association convention in New Orleans, Monday, June 18, 2018, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

DOJ announces biggest health-fraud takedown ‘in history’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Protecting Medicare Advantage

By Rep. Brett Guthrie

Seniors deserve the ‘gold standard’ of care for opioid addiction

By Rep. Raul Ruiz M.D.

Medicare and mental health

By Andrew Sperling

Allyson Schwartz (Photo by Mylan Cannon/APCO Worldwide)

Medicare Advantage is solution to health care policy crisis

By Allyson Y. Schwartz

The future of Medicare — dental, vision and hearing coverage

By Rep. Sander M. Levin

Medicare should ‘pay it forward’ on clinical trials

By Susan Peschin, MHS

Technology, innovation key to Medicare solvency

By Rep. Glenn Thompson

Social Security now running a deficit; insolvency set at 2034

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Accountable Health Communities model launches in South Jersey with a new advisory board

By Amy Yuen

HHS IG: Medicare drug spending rose despite fewer prescriptions

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Listen to seniors: Hearing aids vital to health

By Rep. Debbie Dingell

Addressing the opioid crisis: More information for seniors and their doctors

By Rep. John J. Faso

North Texas doctor, 2 nurses convicted of health care fraud

Associated Press