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President Donald Trump speaks during news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump cites his support for Medicare, slams Medicare for All

By KEVIN FREKING and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

A page from the 2019 U.S. Medicare Handbook is photographed Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Washington. Seniors in many states will be able to get additional services like help with chores, safety devices and respite for caregivers next year through private ‘Medicare Advantage’ insurance plans. It’s a sign of potentially big changes for Medicare.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The 2020 election and opposing views on health care reform

By Marc Siegel

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center, accompanied by, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, left, holds up President Donald Trump's 2020 budget as he speaks following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s cuts to Medicare hospital payments trigger an outcry

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 14, 2011, file photo, various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. The Trump administration is unveiling complex policy changes to Medicare’s prescription drug benefit that would affect beneficiaries’ costs over the next few years. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Proposed changes on Medicare drugs create winners and losers

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

The U.S. Medicare Handbook is photographed Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Washington. Seniors in many states will be able to get additional services like help with chores, safety devices and respite for caregivers next year through private ‘Medicare Advantage’ insurance plans. It’s a sign of potentially big changes for Medicare. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Medicare expands access to in-home support for seniors

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Allyson Schwartz (Photo by Mylan Cannon/APCO Worldwide)

Growth in Medicare Advantage driven by bipartisan support and innovation

By Allyson Y. Schwartz

FILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Medicare is modernizing its website to make it more useful for beneficiaries, particularly younger ones already going online for information from insurers, hospitals and doctors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Medicare upgrades its website ahead of sign-up season

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

The website for HealthCare.gov on Friday, July 6, 2018, in Washington. (HHS via AP) ** FILE **

Trump admin. ramps up attacks on ‘Medicare for all’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 27, 2016, file photo, Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. A major liberal policy group is raising the ante on the health care debate with a new plan that builds on Medicare to guarantee coverage for all. Called “Medicare Extra for All,” the proposal to be released Feb. 22, 2018, by the Center for American Progress gives politically energized Democrats more options to achieve a long-sought goal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Liberal group proposing plan for health coverage for all

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Medicare tightens oversight of opioid prescriptions

Associated Press

America hits the brakes on health care spending

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Illustration: Pants on fire by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

MCCAUGHEY: CBO declares war on Ryan budget plan

By Betsy McCaughey - The Washington Times

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy says intellectual property theft costs billions of dollars and "hundreds of thousands of jobs."

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By wire dispatches and staff reports

House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Stephen Ohlemacher - Associated Press

Savings would be wiped out because insurers would increase bids to recoup income, Medicare administrator Donald Berwick said. (Associated Press)

Private health plans cash in off Medicare by ‘playing the float’

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

Seniors may have to pay for Medicare home health

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Seniors may have to pay for Medicare home health

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press