Medicare

Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Paul Ryan released a bipartisan Medicare reform plan. The timing, amid budget and payroll tax fights, could be intentional.

Republican Congressman Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Ron Wyden have a plan.

This morning, a right-wing Republican and left-wing Democrat have announced a plan to reform Medicare that may -- that may -- put policy over politics.

Today is the last day to choose a Medicare plan -- the end of so-called open enrollment. What does that mean for insurance customers?

Senate Democrats want another vote this week on extending a payroll tax cut for workers. But Republicans say they can't support the Democratic proposal.

Congressional leaders had been counting on the super committee to deal with a lot of spending and tax issues in the short-term.

At the crossroads of our national debate about jobs and our national debate about health care debt... Is the (fictional) city of Hobbs. Its ...

President Obama has released his budget proposal for the 2012 federal spending plan. A growing national deficit has prompted the White House to...

This final note today about the deficit. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform made some news this afternoon. That's the...