WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nation’s COVID-19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science […]
Author Archives: By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press
Retiree Checks to Rise Modestly Amid Push to Expand Benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase from Social Security in 2020, an uptick with potential political consequences in an election year when Democrats […]
Medicare Expands Access to In-Home Support For Seniors
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare is experimenting with a new direction in health care. Starting next year, seniors in many states will be able to get additional services such as help […]
Social Security Checks Will Grow in 2019 as Inflation Rises
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of millions of Social Security recipients and other retirees will get a 2.8 percent boost in benefits next year as inflation edges higher. It’s the biggest […]
California Among Eight States with Drop in Uninsured
WASHINGTON — Eight states, including California, saw a significant drop last year in the number of residents going without health insurance, according to a government report out Tuesday, Feb. 9, […]