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BIGELOW: Punting problems to next generation won’t solve fiscal crisis

By Celia Bigelow

** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012, after the Supreme Court ruled on his health care legislation. (AP Photo/Luke Sharrett/Pool)

Tax increases for health care in ’13 may be just a start for U.S. workers

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldicar - Associated Press

Red lights illuminate Pennsylvania Avenue as the U.S. Capitol glows in the twilight, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Medicare premiums could rise for many retirees

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

FOSTER: The choices: raise taxes, go over the cliff or kick the can

By J.D. Foster - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2012, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to a closed-door Republican strategy session, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner has been caught up in a monumental struggle over taxes and spending aimed at keeping the country from taking a yearend dive over the "fiscal cliff." President Barack Obama is tugging Boehner one way in pursuit of a budget deal, while conservatives yank the other way, some howling that the speaker already is going wobbly on them and turning vindictive against those in his party who dare disagree. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AP source: Boehner offers millionaire tax hike

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, arrives Dec. 12, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner and the other House Republican leaders are calling for President Obama to come up with plan they can accept for spending cuts and tax revenue to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and budget reductions. (Associated Press)

Boehner: ‘Serious differences’ remain in talks

By Andrew Taylor - Associated Press

Medicare program sending seniors to facilities with licensing problems

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

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HERGER: Medicare reform crucial for economic health

By Rep. Wally Herger

**FILE** The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington on April 5, 2009. (Associated Press)

HHS appointee a familiar face

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio is pursued by reporters as he walks to the House floor to deliver remarks about negotiations with President Barack Obama on the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner said President Barack Obama is slow-walking talks to avoid the fiscal cliff, and hasn't outlined spending cuts he's willing to support as part of a compromise. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Americans desire a ‘fiscal cliff’ deal without pain

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

WILLIAMS: The expanding entitlement state?

By Armstrong Williams - The Washington Times

Illustration Medical Fiscal Cliff by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

ORIENT: Doctors at risk from fiscal cliff

By Dr. Jane M. Orient

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (left), with House Speaker John A. Boehner, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a meeting with President Obama to discuss the economy and the deficit. Mr. Obama's re-election has stiffened Democrats' spine against cutting popular benefit programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Their new resolve could become as big a hurdle to reaching a deal for skirting economy-crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January as Republicans' resistance to raising tax rates on the wealthy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

MILLER: Standoff at the ‘fiscal cliff’

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, sees chances for avoiding going over the “fiscal cliff” at less than 1 in 3. President Obama is sending aides to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with legislative leaders. (Associated Press)

Are parties hurtling toward ‘fiscal cliff’?

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FOSTER: Simple entitlement reforms we can all agree on

By J.D. Foster - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House. Asked to name the one step they'd push most urgently if they were the newly re-elected President Barack Obama, a dozen leading economists advise President Barack Obama to sidestep the "fiscal cliff" during his second term of office. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Obama to Hill: Fiscal cliff is ‘urgent business’

By Andrew Taylor - Associated Press

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HASTERT: Debt-driver Medicare needs market-based reforms

By J. Dennis Hastert

Illustration Department of Health and Human Services by John Camejo for The Washington Times

ORIENT: Medicare rationing under Obamacare has started already

By Dr. Jane M. Orient

Disabled patients to benefit from Medicare change

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Rep. Darrell E. Issa (AP photo)

Hill GOP presses Medicare probe

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times