The $318 billion tax cut package recently approved by Congress includes $10 billion in Medicaid aid to fiscally strapped states. More . . .

Nursing homes in a dozen states account for nearly three-fourths of the most severe and repeated violations of nursing home patient care standards according to a Gannett News Service investigation. Texas heads the list. More . . .

The Supreme Court has given its qualified approval to a Maine program that will extend drug discounts to uninsured state residents by pressuring manufacturers to grant the same price discounts they already give Medicaid recipients. More . .

Disabled Medicaid recipients living at home who are allowed to direct their own care are more satisfied with their c...

More Americans are turning to 'ethical wills' as a way of passing on their hopes and values to succeeding generations.