The Latest Breaking News from Medicare

The White House strategy to eliminate hunger would widen the availability of free school meals and expand eligibility for food stamps.

The purported hackers who stole personal information almost 10 million Optus customers have apologised and claim to have deleted the data.

Regional WA health clinics are struggling to attract doctors and the "chronic shortage" of GPs is impacting patient care and rural communities.

The Inflation Reduction Act aims to reduce the cost of drugs, but the law’s limitations may not help the Democrats in the midterms

WASHINGTON — Rising GOP pushback against a short-term stopgap funding bill into December that would pave the way for a lame-duck omnibus package is at minimum a political headache for party leaders, and at worst points to market-rattling brinkmanship around fiscal deadlines next year.

GOP pushback against a stopgap funding bill is a political headache for party leaders, and could point to fiscal brinkmanship next year.

Sam Black says the sudden loss of bulk-billing at her local medical centre is a "big hit for a rural community", and means she can't afford to see a doctor.

The Inflation Reduction Act gives Medicare historic new powers to limit prescription drug prices. But the pharmaceutical industry is already lobbying to dull their impact.

Australasian College of Emergency Medicine president-elect Stephen Gourley says a complete rethink of the way health services are funded is needed to address the sector's crisis.