Mar 05 Virginia's Ken Cuccinelli on How to Manage Medicare EmbedVideo(5904, 482, 304); "It doesn't have to be the way it is today," Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told Judy Woodruff earlier this week, referring to the country's entitlement programs. Cuccinelli, the leading Republican candidate in Virginia's gubernatorial… Continue reading
Mar 05 Parties Look to Budget Battles with Sequestration a Reality By Christina Bellantoni President Barack Obama met with his Cabinet at the White House Monday. The president and Congress remain locked in stalled budget negotiations as the effect of the sequestration begin to impact the U.S. economy. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images With… Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch President Obama Nominates Candidates for Energy and Environmental Team President Obama Nominates Three Candidates for Energy and Environmental Team… Continue watching
Mar 04 Finding a Doctor Who Accepts Medicare EmbedVideo(5881, 482, 304); Endless searching. Repeated rejection. Trips to the emergency room when all else fails. The horror stories are familiar to seniors who can't find a new primary care doctor willing to accept their Medicare coverage. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch Access to Doctors Shrinks for Some Medicare Patients It's getting harder and harder for some seniors to find a primary care physician. Ray Suarez reports on why the threat of massive cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates has left some doctors so worried that they've decided to stop taking… Continue watching
Mar 04 Why Is It So Hard To Fix Pay for Doctors Taking Medicare Patients? Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images While physicians have sidestepped drastic Medicare payment cuts for 2013, doctors' groups and lawmakers are gearing up for yet another battle to scrap the formula that forces Congress to consider the "doc fix"… Continue reading
Mar 04 Struck By a Turtle? Crushed By a Merchant Ship? There's a Code for That Struck by a turtle lately? No? Then surely you've been smacked by a raccoon, chicken ... or at the very least, a nonvenomous lizard. Well, regardless, starting in 2014, your doctor will be prepared when animals, lightning, or even… Continue reading
Mar 03 First Child Cured of HIV The first baby has been cured of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. The case was publicly unveiled at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. The infant, who is now two and a half years old,… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Shields and Brooks on the Cusp of Sequester, Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court Shields and Brooks on the Cusp of Sequester, Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court… Continue watching
Mar 01 Sequester Spotlight: Virginia's Military Region The self-imposed March 1 deadline to broker a deal to avert across-the-board budget cuts in discretionary spending known as sequestration has passed and lawmakers have left town for the weekend. NewsHour is talking with our public media partner stations… Continue reading