Medicare is a major sticking point for both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and the details of each candidate’s Medicare plan, as well as the potential impact on costs ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney agree there has to be a limit to how much seniors pay for Medicare, but they're worlds apart on how to make that happen. You wouldn ...

Medicare dominated healthcare components of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and was one of the largest targets in the Republican response delivered by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that difficult debates on how to address the costs of Social Security and Medicare are "starting now," even though his 2012 budget ...

President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes and other ...

Speaking to an audience largely made up of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, former President Barack Obama spoke approvingly of the aggressively reformist agenda being put ...

Mitt Romney attacked President Barack Obama Saturday over the future of Medicare in his first weekly podcast, NBC News reported. In the address posted on his website, Romney said Obama’s healthcare ...

This week, President Obama released a $3.8 trillion budget plan that would construct $360 billion in savings from Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs over a span of 10 years. The cuts are ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is using Barack Obama's words from 2008 against him in a new ad about Medicare. Romney's campaign on Sunday rolled out a television ad that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ending years of last-minute fixes, President Barack Obama on Thursday signed legislation permanently changing how Medicare pays doctors, a rare bipartisan achievement by Democrats ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is asking Republican lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. If GOP ...