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With Medicare cuts from the sequester kicking in this week, cancer doctors warn that they may be forced to stop offering chemotherapy in their offices and clinics.
When President Obama's budget arrives on Capitol Hill on April 10, lawmakers in the opposition party - in keeping with a time-honored Washington custom - are certain to immediately brand it "Dead on Arrival." This year, however, Obama's fellow Democrats may not be far behind.
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), who's been struggling with speech and using a motorized scooter to get around since sustaining a brain hemorrhage in 2006, announced on March 26 that he won't run for re-election.
Bernie Sanders, a feisty Independent from Vermont who often votes with his Democratic colleagues, scored a modest - if largely symbolic - victory for older Americans as the Senate pulled an all-nighter last Friday to debate and vote on budget amendment s.
AARP Vice Chairman of the Board Carol Raphael, a nationally recognized expert on health care and workforce issues, was appointed last week to the Commission on Long-Term Care, which Congress recently created to develop plans for "a comprehensive, coordinated and high-quality system" of long-term…
Is requiring proof of citizenship for voters a way to protect the integrity of elections? Or is it an illegal tactic that will keep many older Americans and minorities away from the polls?
Have older Americans turned peacenik?
As President Obama's personal lobbying on Capitol Hill this week seemed to bring him closer to Republican lawmakers as he talked about changes in Medicare and Social Security, Democrats offered the expected pushback.
It's budget time on Capitol Hill, and remaking Medicare is a hot topic.
Maybe the most surprising thing about President Obama's wining and dining of GOP lawmakers is the fact that it's surprising.