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Former Vice President Joe Biden released plans to expand Medicare eligibility and forgive some student debt as he works to unite a fractured Democratic base behind his presumptive 2020 nomination. Biden announced Thursday he would lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60 and forgive student debt for low-income and middle class families who attended public colleges and universities, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and underfunded minority-serving institution (MSIs). The proposals mark an initial olive branch to supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), some of whom have expressed skepticism at Biden’s centrist brand of politics and were dismayed when the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's administrator in Medicare agency, a key player in carrying out the healthcare reform, will resign after his nomination was blocked by Senate Republicans, local media reports quoted officials as saying on Wednesday. The administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Don Berwick, will leave his post on Dec. 2, and his deputy Marilyn Tavenner, will take over, according to The Hill, a newspaper specializes in covering the Congress. Berwick, a Harvard professor known for his work in improving health care system, was nominated in April, 2010, to help carry...