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Humana Inc.'s third-quarter net income jumped 13 percent on Medicare Advantage enrollment growth, and the health insurer also raised its 2011 earnings forecast.

The good news: Social Security recipients are getting their first cost-of-living raise, 3.6 percent, since 2009.

The bad news: Rising Medicare premiums will eat into that increase for many, and could erase it entirely for a small percentage.

In a special House election carefully watched by national political strategists, Democrat Kathy Hochul won what had been a Republican seat Tuesday in upstate New York, lifting Democrats’ hopes for the 2012 campaign.

They're not buying it. Most Americans say they don't believe Medicare has to be cut to balance the federal budget, and ditto for Social Security, a new poll shows.

President Barack Obama is turning his attention to the nation's crushing debt and trying to counter a Republican anti-deficit plan with a framework of his own that tackles politically sensitive health care programs while also increasing taxes.

There is nearly a bipartisan consensus that any cuts to Medicare and Social Security should spare the Baby Boomers and the elderly, who vote in larger numbers than younger adults.

Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment—make up more than a third of US wages.

“The U.S. economy has become alarmingly dependent on government stimulus,” says one economist.

A scam tricked Medicare into paying for nearly 10 times more units of an inhaler drug than were available in South Florida, costing taxpayers millions, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.

Life Inc.: Even with Medicare coverage, new research finds that 65-year-olds who retire this year could ne

Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million.