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Insurance Premiums On the Rise

by Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar Associated Press, and Tom Murphy Associated PressJune 13, 2016

In this photo taken April 11, 2016, Medicare Chief Medical Officer Patrick Conway speaks at the Pew Charitable Trust in Washington. In a sprawling, nondescript office park near Baltimore, some 360 people at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation are trying to change the health care system, using the government's premier insurance program as leverage. If they prevail, the U.S. may no longer have the worst of both worlds: unsustainable spending and unenviable results. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Reinvention Of Medicare Under Study

by Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar Associated PressApril 17, 2016

FILE - In this July 30, 2015 file photo, a sign supporting Medicare is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Medicare proposal to test new ways of paying for chemotherapy and other drugs given in a doctor's office has sparked a furious battle, and cancer doctors are demanding that the Obama administration scrap the experiment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

New Medicare Plan for Drugs Sparks Outcry

by Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar Associated PressApril 10, 2016

FILE - In this July 30, 2015 file photo, a sign supporting Medicare is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington as registered nurses and other community leaders celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare. From Akron to Tampa Bay, from New York City to San Francisco, Medicare on Friday, April 1, 2016, launches an ambitious experiment changing how it pays for hip and knee replacements to raise quality and lower costs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Medicare: New Push on Knee, Hip Replacement

by Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar Associated PressApril 1, 2016