Health Care

Budget Battles

  • Why Alzheimer’s Will Be the Fiscal Nightmare of the Century

    By Michael Hodin, The Fiscal Times

    A new study by the RAND Corporation projects that the cumulative costs of caring for people with dementia could be as high as $215 billion annually in the United States – which would exceed the...

  • Obama Cuts Medicare, Social Security for More Taxes

    By Zachary A Goldfarb, The Washington Post

    President Obama will release a budget next week that proposes significant cuts to Medicare and Social Security and fewer tax hikes than in the past, a conciliatory approach that he hopes will...

  • Why We're Losing the Costly Battle Against Superbugs

    By Mark Koba, CNBC

    A new study by MPHonline.org reports that superbugs are responsible for $20 billion in excess health care costs in the U.S. annually, as well as $35 billion in lost wages and other societal costs...

  • Obama's 2014 Budget: Changes Ahead for Medicare?

    By Helen Adamopoulos, The Medicare NewsGroup

    On April 10, President Obama will enter the ongoing 2014 budget battle when the White House releases its budget blueprint, joining Senate Democrats and both parties in the House in a partisan scuffle...

  • Big Pharma Stung by Landmark Patent Defeat in India

    By BEN HIRSCHLER and KAUSTUBH LULKAMI, Reuters

    The decision by India's Supreme Court on Monday not to allow a patent on Novartis AG's cancer drug Glivec angered but did not surprise U.S. and European drug companies, given past intellectual...