Senator Elizabeth Warren’s health care financing plan puts health care costs back in...
What's Buzzing
Berwick: Medicare for All lowers costs and reduces confusion and...
How do we keep Americans from dying for lack of health care? That’s the question every...
People with Medicare still spend an average of $5,500 on health...
Medicare is a blessing for people over 65 and people with disabilities. But, it only covers about...
Lowering drug prices will not affect innovation
Peter Bach, a physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, explains in Bloomberg News that...
Medicare for All lowers taxes for most Americans
Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economics professors at UC Berkeley, report in The Guardian that...
Your Health & Wellness
Exercise may be your best bet for bone health, not calcium or...
Calcium helps keep your bones strong and healthy. So, it is wise to incorporate foods with calcium...
Don’t let the hospital keep you in bed if you’re...
Don’t let the hospital keep you in bed if you’re able to walk. Even if you’re...
Skip the urine test, unless you have symptoms
Step into a doctor’s office for a checkup and more often than not, you’ll be weighed, your...
How to support a loved one diagnosed with a serious health...
Sachin H. Jain writes for Forbes about the importance of understanding how difficult a grave...
Top predictor for a longer life: close relationships
Only one in 5,000 people in the U.S. reach the age of 100. But, there are places where five to ten...
Your Coverage Options
Do you need care? Why should your health insurer decide
In a Washington Post op-ed, William E. Bennett Jr., a gastroenterologist and associate professor of...
Medicare Open Enrollment in 2019
Medicare Open Enrollment begins on October 15 and runs through December 7. Whether you are enrolled...
Medicare Part D plans often don’t cover new generic drugs
According to Stat, the Association for Accessible Medicines–the trade association for generic...
If you need nutrition counseling, Medicare may cover it in full
As we all know, what we eat can affect our health in all kinds of ways. And, for the 15 million...
New Medicare rule requires insurers to tell people their...
Even though health care costs can be sky high, people often have little clue what their copay will...