If you are lucky enough to live to a ripe old age, there may come a time when you should stop driving, both for your own safety and the safety of others. You may no longer have the reflexes, the...
Diane Archer
Why aren’t hospitals designed with older patients in mind?
Last Saturday, I was with my mother-in-law at the rehab facility to which she had been sent for physical therapy the previous evening, post hospital discharge, to regain the strength she needed to...
With the midterms behind us, there’s good reason to get...
With 70 percent of the public supporting Medicare for all, including a majority of Republicans, there’s good reason to be pushing hard for it. The midterm elections are yet another reason to...
2019 Medicare Handbook is misleading
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has released the 2019 Medicare Handbook, which continues to be misleading in its...
Amarin makes unsupported claims about its heart disease medicine
As we all know, some pharmaceutical companies will go very far to sell their products. Shefali Luthra reports for Kaiser Health News that Amarin has been making unsupported claims about the benefits...
The price we pay for insulin
Insulin was discovered 100 years ago. Still, pharmaceutical companies marketing the drug are making enormous profits from it today by patenting new formulations and ways to deliver it. The price we...
Will Pharma’s campaign contributions to House Democrats...
For the last ten years, the pharmaceutical industry has donated most of its Congressional campaign support to Republican candidates. But, knowing that the Democrats were likely to control the House...
How your doctor can help you age in place
We all know the expression, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” It is as true in the health care realm as everywhere else. Even I, a health care advocate, who thought I was on...
Why enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan?
Millions of people with Medicare choose a Medicare Advantage plan, a commercial health plan that contracts with the government to deliver Medicare benefits, over traditional Medicare. Why enroll in...
Shouldn’t traditional Medicare have an out-of-pocket cap?
Why shouldn’t traditional Medicare have an out-of-pocket cap? It would eliminate the need for people in traditional Medicare to have supplemental coverage and it would put traditional Medicare...