Disclosure that an auditing contractor hired by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. may have failed to appropriately value assets of already terminated pension plans has drawn sharp criticism from a top U.S. House lawmaker...Read more...

Insurers, the young, the uninsured and lawmakers are just a few of the groups sorting out what the implementation of health reform means for them as details emerge on changes to the system...Read more...

The majority of the nation’s seniors have little understanding of what the Democrats’ newly enacted healthcare law actually does, according to poll results...Read more...

Cuts in Social Security benefits might be used as one means to reduce the burgeoning federal budget deficit. But are there better ways to deal with the problem?...Read more...

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would not say whether the recently recess-appointed Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would ever receive a Senate confirmation hearing in the committee that Baucus oversees, as the Constitution requires...Read more...

Patients will find it easier to appeal the denials of health insurance claims under rules issued today by the Obama administration... Read more...

Battered by high unemployment and record home foreclosures, most Americans seem to have lost faith in another fundamental part of their personal finances: Social Security... Read more...

President Barack Obama is making another attempt to win U.S. Senate confirmation of Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Obama resubmitted Berwick’s nomination to the Senate today. He put Berwick in the job July 7 using a recess appointment, a procedure that lets the president fill positions without Senate confirmation when Congress isn’t in session. The nomination had been stalled since it was submitted in April because of opposition from some Republicans... Read more...

When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”... Read more...

Sen. Pat Roberts used the GOP’s weekly address to bash President Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid, alleging it “flies in the face” of administration pledges of transparency... Read more...