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The Biden administration has proposed changes to how it would pay private Medicare Advantage plans, setting off a lobbying frenzy.

In a trip to Las Vegas, President Biden warned that Republicans would endanger popular programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Mike Pence and Nikki Haley somehow manage to propose ideas that are both implausible and unpopular.

We need to value and secure our vital facilitators of interdependence.

Yes, the rich should pay more, but that won’t be enough.

Retirees whose former employers offer health coverage are being shifted to privately run Medicare Advantage, often against their wishes. The change saves millions for employers.

Readers react to the president’s Opinion guest essay. Also: More lies from Fox News; sticking with Tesla; states’ abortion bans.

Medicare es la sólida garantía con la que cuentan los estadounidenses. Mi presupuesto hará que el fondo fiduciario de Medicare sea solvente más allá de 2050.

The president’s plan targets Americans earning more than $400,000 a year in an attempt to increase the program’s solvency by 25 years.

The president’s plan targets Americans earning more than $400,000 a year in an attempt to increase the program’s solvency by 25 years.

Medicare is the rock-solid guarantee that Americans count on. My budget will make the Medicare trust fund solvent beyond 2050.

Without trimming popular programs or raising taxes, cuts to the rest of the federal budget would have to be monumental.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has issued a report urging oversight of insurance brokers who are being offered financial incentives to push more expensive plans.

The president has tried to highlight years of Republican proposals that call for scaling back popular — and increasingly expensive — federal programs.

Readers discuss the financial shortfalls that both programs face. Also: An asylum crackdown; Mike Pence’s refusal to testify; money for the police.

Reports of their inevitable collapse are greatly exaggerated.

President Biden’s pledges in his State of the Union speech are almost certainly economically impossible.

Republicans and Democrats have sharply divergent approaches to repairing the programs. Any solutions will affect younger workers as much as retirees.

The backtracking by the Florida Republican came after bipartisan criticism and signaled how the G.O.P. has pulled away from calls to overhaul the nation’s entitlement programs.

The Florida Republican is facing off with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, and others in his party over what his campaign plan meant, while President Biden capitalizes on the spat.