WASHINGTON Senators are considering limiting but not eliminating the tax-free status of employer-provided health benefits to help pay for President Barack Obama's plan to provide coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans.

... focuses on another program -- Medicaid -- and accuses the Texas governor of failing to extend the state-federal health insurance program to enough of his state's poor children. The Bush campaign called the ad a distortion. In the Medicare ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Bush administration is acting to give states more flexibility with federal health insurance programs so they can expand coverage for the uninsured, a move that drew bipartisan praise Saturday from the nation ...

... Club. Kennedy said Congress and the Bush administration should reduce the number of uninsured Americans, reduce health care costs and enact a prescription drug benefit in Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly.

... prescription drugs and Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor. Medicaid spending jumped 13 ... of prescription drugs under Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly. The House last month ...

WASHINGTON Arkansas Democrats on Wednesday tried to temper criticism of a broad expansion of a federal health insurance program for children that Congress is set to pass this week. The Senate is on track to add $35 billion over five ...

... Davis cautioned. "You're only covered for 90 days with Social Security," he said. Medicare, the federal health insurance program for those 65 and older, only pays for a limited amount of skilled nursing home care. The limit is 100 days ...

... in managed care plans, according to the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Another 80,000 enroll each month in 398 available managed care plans. The ...