The federal buy-in program enables states to help people pay Medicare premiums and other out-of-pocket medical costs. The buy-in program started in 1966 and expanded in 1990, and allows states to ...

Big changes have come to Medicare’s prescription drug coverage, known as Part D, in 2026 that could affect how you pay for ...

Whether to include a new public health insurance option as part of health reform legislation has bedeviled Senate leaders trying to hold on to the 60 votes needed to ultimately pass a bill. The idea ...

The bipartisan method to link Republicans, who want to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67, and Democrats, who are reticent to give ground on entitlements, could be allowing 65- and 66-year-olds ...

It seems a simple enough proposition: Give people the choice to buy into Medicare, the popular federal insurance program for those over 65. Former Vice President Joe Biden is one of the Democratic ...

WASHINGTON -- A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the Senate's health care debate, ran into resistance Sunday from lawmakers who can make or break ...

Some policymakers have floated the idea of allowing people younger than 65 to buy in to the federal Medicare program. But how would a Medicare buy-in program affect health insurance coverage, premiums ...

Democrats continue to struggle to craft a health reform bill that can attract 60 votes in support. WASHINGTON — A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a proposal Thursday that would allow people in late middle age to buy insurance through Medicare, helping to sustain an idea that sprang unexpectedly from the ...

Late Tuesday evening it was announced that the group of ten moderate and liberal Democratic senators had reached broad tentative agreement to remove the public option from the Senate health-care bill.

Expanding Medicare would go further to advance the original aims of liberals than the watered down version of the public option. By definition, the Medicare option (which would eventually be offered ...