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President Barack Obama, two years into a presidency that increased spending to prime a weak economy, is turning his attention to the nation's crushing debt and trying to counter a Republican anti-deficit plan with a framework of his own that tackles politically sensitive health care programs while also increasing taxes....

A Republican plan for the 2012 budget would cut more than $4 trillion over the next decade, more than even the president s debt commission proposed, with spending caps as well as changes in the Medicare and Medicaid health programs, its principal author said Sunday.

Employers and even some younger people would pay more for health insurance if lawmakers raise the eligibility age for Medicare, a study to be released Tuesday concludes....

Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments....

The defendants, including five in Los Angeles, allegedly cheated the government out of more than $225 million in false billing schemes.

CVS Caremark Corp. says it will pay $1.25 billion to Universal American Corp. for its Medicare prescription drug services unit.

Hundreds of federal agents fanned out Wednesday morning across Southern California to serve warrants in a coast-to-coast crackdown on healthcare fraud.

Federal authorities said Friday they conducted the largest Medicare fraud bust ever and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling ...

President Obama will use a “recess appointment” to name Dr. Donald M. Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid.

After a week of partisan wrangling, the Senate on Friday passed legislation to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments looming for months. But the last-ditch effort came too late.