Mark Crane

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain unveiled a health plan today that focuses more sharply on reducing costs than providing coverage for the uninsured.

WASHINGTON -- Most Medicare patients will pay .90 more per month in Part B premiums next year -- to .40.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Individuals would be required to buy health insurance and there would be tax credits and subsidies for those who can't afford to under Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's long-awaited and ambitious plan to provide health coverage for all Americans.

WASHINGTON -- Reversing a 15-year trend, physicians and health-industry groups are contributing substantially more money to Democratic presidential campaigns than to GOP efforts.