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  Medicare What to Know About Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, New Head of CMS

  On Feb. 19, President Joe Biden tapped a former Obama administration official to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — a massive…

  

  Rachel Christian
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  Medicare Medicare Front and Center of COVID-19 Response Strategy

  Washington has signaled that Medicare will be a focal point in the federal plan to battle COVID-19 in 2021. At the same time, research…

  

  Terry Turner
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  Medicare Analysis: Lowering Medicare Eligibility Age from 65 to 60

  On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden had called for lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60. According to experts, Biden’s Medicare…

  

  Rachel Christian
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  Health ‘I Was Driving Myself Crazy’: Seniors Struggle to Navigate Glitchy Websites and Find COVID-19 Vaccines

  Millions of older Americans are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. But limited supplies, overwhelmed scheduling systems and fragmented state-by-state distribution guidelines…

  

  Rachel Christian
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  Retirement Planning More Americans Saving a Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Nearly a year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, its ramifications created a nation divided between savers and borrowers. But…

  

  Terry Turner