Through videos on YouTube and TikTok that feature their lives, fashions and routines, many Koreans are challenging the idea that such media are a young person’s game.
The pandemic abruptly closed the agency’s 1,200 offices, and officials are considering how to move forward. One issue: Without the offices, fewer low-income seniors sought benefits.
Broad Coalition of Democrats Presses Biden to Expand Medicare
Over 150 House Democrats are pushing the president to include a plan in his infrastructure package to lower the eligibility age, expand benefits and negotiate drug prices.
Representative Pramila Jayapal, who leads the House’s progressive wing, is teaming up with Democrats across the ideological spectrum. “It is really unusual to get this level of intensity on a health care proposal,” she said.Credit.T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times
May 27, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON A broad coalition of Democrats from across the ideological spectrum plans on Thursday to begin what it promises will be a noisy and sustained campaign to pressure President Biden to include a major expansion of Medicare in his infrastructure package.