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Of obsessions, vanity and delusions of superiority.

When signing up for the health coverage, timing and coordination are everything. Here are key points to remember, especially if you are working past age 65.

Most issues will strongly favor the Democrats in 2020. Taking away people’s health insurance is an exception.

Touring New Hampshire, Mr. Bloomberg said that it was fine to provide Medicare to uninsured Americans, but that giving it to everyone was financially untenable.

A new government program was supposed to prevent certain Medicare recipients from cycling in and out of hospitals. Now some experts worry it may be costing lives.

Many Americans would welcome some traits of the island’s free, universal health care system.

Weakening Obamacare would weaken the fight against Medicare fraud and, in the process, damage the quality of care.

Federal prosecutors charged three people, saying a scheme at a network of nursing and assisted-living facilities operated over a period of 14 years.

The Obama administration on Wednesday noted the milestone after years of slow growth and said health care would account for 20 percent of the economy by 2025.

A federal judge said the president had vastly exceeded his legal authority in reducing payments to hospitals for drugs given to Medicare beneficiaries.

A guide to what’s running and what’s not while Congress and President Trump negotiate over government funding.

What my mother’s death taught me about the health care system American needs.

We asked readers for their ideas, which include Medicare for All, price transparency, limits on interventions for the terminally ill and emphasis on preventive care.

Democrats dream of expanding Medicare, but struggle to define the role of the popular private plans that now cover more than one-third of the 60 million Medicare beneficiaries.

End-of-life spending may seem wasteful, but it turns out it’s hard to predict when someone will die.

More than half of older Americans lack the skills to gather and understand medical information. Providers must simplify, researchers say.

A well-intentioned program created by the Affordable Care Act may have led to patient deaths.

I’m listening for something arresting, a vision and a vocabulary that will rally and inspire.

The administration has sometimes made misleading statements to garner support for its plan on what it has accurately identified as a problem for many Americans.

Senior power is the sleeping giant of American politics.