Sometimes, out of nowhere, your new prescription drugs can be ineffective or, worse still, cause unpleasant side effects. In some cases, the reason is that the manufacturer messed up. Pro Publica has...
Diane Archer
Six ways to keep your brain young and healthy
Rudolf Tanzi has been studying the brain for more than 45 years. He believes that our brains can do a lot more than we push them to do. And, people who work their brains hard also better themselves...
Insurers refuse to accept blame for high health care costs and...
Based on the statements of both Republicans and Democrats at a Congressional hearing the other day, you’d think that they appreciate that corporate health insurers are unable to contain costs or...
“Barriers and bias” in Medicare Advantage keep people from...
Medicare Advantage plans are once again found to inappropriately deny enrollees fair access to nursing home care, reports Kimberly Marselis for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. While Medicare...
Health care reforms that build on the Affordable Care Act...
Amid persisting and growing concerns about health care costs and complexity, Third Way, a centrist think tank, proposes a health care bill of rights intended to guarantee people good health care, yet...
Pricing drugs in the US at the same level as other wealthy...
President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should pay no more than people in other wealthy nations for our drugs. To date, he has not been willing or able to deliver on this. If Trump is...
2026: Trump’s drug price deals haven’t stopped drug...
Drug companies are now grossing $700 billion a year for their drugs and, for the most part, drug prices keep going up. The latest data show that the 16 drug companies with whom President Trump struck...
Many older adults are overmedicated
Ninety percent of older adults take at least one prescription drug, and more than four in ten older adults take five or more prescription drugs. But, in some cases, older adults take more...
Where’s the value in Medicare Advantage dental, vision and...
A study by Christophe Cai et al., published in JAMA, finds that Medicare Advantage dental, vision and hearing benefits are of little if any value. The researchers compared use of dental, vision...
Senate Judiciary Committee finds that UnitedHealth games...
The Senate Judiciary Committee just confirmed what we’ve been hearing for several years now, UnitedHealth games the Medicare Advantage program’s payment system to boost its profits, driving up...