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A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected depletion dates. That's according to an annual report released Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up due to rising health care costs, new SSA law

The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected depletion dates.
 
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump promises to order that the US pay only the price other nations do for some drugs

 
The exterior view of a CVS branch is shown on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

CVS Health rides improving Medicare business to better-than-expected first quarter

 
A Humana logo is seen in a lake on the Palmer Private Course at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif., in this Jan. 17, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Health insurers rally after government lays out better-than-expected Medicare Advantage raise

 
Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home in Front Royal, Va., on Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Trump administration nixes plan to cover anti-obesity drugs through Medicare

 

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, waves at the conclusion of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to take lead of Medicare and Medicaid agency

 
Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, sits before testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Oz pledges to fight health care fraud but makes no commitments on Medicaid funding cuts

 
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walks to the House Chamber before President Donald Trump addresses to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees

 
Paul Mack poses for a portrait in Redwood City, Calif., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Patients struggle with lack of consistent coverage for popular weight-loss drugs

 
Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks to supporters at an election night rally in Newtown, Pa., Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Dr. Mehmet Oz holds millions from companies that he’d wield power over if confirmed, report shows

 
President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ozempic, Wegovy and other drugs are among 15 selected for Medicare’s price negotiations

 
FILE - Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home, March 1, 2024, in Front Royal, Va. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Cheap Ozempic? How millions of Americans with obesity may get access to costly weight-loss drugs

 
President Joe Biden speaks as first lady Jill Biden looks on at a Friendsgiving event with service members and their families in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 25 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans

 

Biden seeks Medicare and Medicaid coverage of popular but costly weight-loss drugs for millions of Americans

 

Trump says he is nominating TV doctor Mehmet Oz to lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

 
FILE - Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., March 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump picks Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid, Linda McMahon for Education, Lutnick for Commerce

 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on lowering the cost of prescription drugs, at NHTI Concord Community College, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden says global leaders are terrified of Trump and quietly tell him, ‘He can’t win’

 
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris chats with the hosts during a commercial break at The View, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in New York. From left are Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Harris and Alyssa Farah Griffin. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris proposes expanding Medicare to cover in-home senior care

 

Biden administration says list price of 10 drugs commonly used by Medicare recipients will be cut by 38% to 79%

 
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and President Joe Biden depart after speaking about the administration's efforts to lower prescription drug costs during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House says prescription drug deals will produce billions in savings for taxpayers, seniors

 

White House says deals struck to reduce cost of 10 drugs, saving taxpayers and Medicare recipients billions of dollars

 

Montana’s largest nursing home prepares to close following patient safety violations

 
President Joe Biden speaks during a presidential debate hosted by CNN with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

At debate, Biden meant to say he had beaten ‘big pharma,’ not Medicare

 
Packages of the overdose antidote naloxone await use on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at OnPoint NYC, an overdose prevention center in New York. According to a study published Monday, June 17, 2024, in JAMA Internal Medicine, people on Medicare who survived a drug overdose in 2020 were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

Lost chances to treat overdose survivors are documented in new Medicare study

 
FILE - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare bill in Independence, Mo., July 30, 1965. At right is former President Harry Truman. The Supreme Court's pending Idaho abortion ruling may hinge on how federal spending power might protect doctors against a state's criminal code. For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded hospitals in the Jim Crow South to desegregate. (AP Photo, File)

Can Medicare money protect doctors from abortion crimes? It worked before, desegregating hospitals

 

Court says judge had no authority to halt Medicare Advantage plan for Delaware government retirees

 
FILE - Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home, March 1, 2024, in Front Royal, Va. The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy may be paid for by Medicare — as long as patients using it also have heart disease and need to reduce the risk of future heart attacks, strokes and other serious problems, federal officials said Thursday, March 21. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Medicare can pay for obesity drugs like Wegovy in certain heart patients

 
FILE - The Cigna Corp., logo is displayed at the headquarters of the health insurer, Nov. 26, 2018, in Philadelphia. The Cigna Group will sell its Medicare Advantage business to another insurer, Health Care Service Corp., for about $3.7 billion. Cigna said Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, the deal also includes a supplemental benefits business and Medicare prescription drug coverage. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Cigna trims portfolio by selling Medicare business for $3.7 billion to Health Care Service Corp.

 
FILE - A Humana logo is seen in a lake on the Palmer Private Course at PGA West during the first round of the Humana Challenge PGA golf tournament in La Quinta, Calif., in this Jan. 17, 2013, file photo. Shares of Humana are tumbling after the health insurer said it was still dealing with higher-than-expected care costs from its Medicare Advantage customers and it chopped earnings expectations. The health insurer said Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 that its Medicare Advantage patients used more inpatient care than it expected in November and December. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Late-year medical costs spike forces Humana to scale back profit expectations for 2023

 

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FILE - A waist is measured during an obesity prevention study in Chicago, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

New weight loss drugs are out of reach for millions of older Americans because Medicare won’t pay

 

Hawaii announces first recipients of student loan payment program for health care workers

 

Community Health Network to pay government $345M to settle Medicare fraud charges

 
President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Older Americans to pay less for some drug treatments as drugmakers penalized for big price jumps

 

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