In a Wall Street Journal podcast, Gail Marks Jarvis explains why it’s so hard to prepare for your health care costs in retirement. But, there are ways to keep retirement costs down. At 65...
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Senate Republicans on Finance Committee pass even deadlier...
As I’ve written, the House Republicans passed a reconciliation bill which, among other things, imposes deadly cuts to Medicaid and ends premium subsidies for people with low incomes in the state...
Proposed Medicaid cuts imperil access to hospital care for all...
Hundreds of hospitals have negative operating margins and will not survive Republicans’ proposed Medicaid cuts: Rural hospitals are at particular risk: “61% of rural hospitals have a...
RFK Jr. fires every expert on CDC committee that approves...
Concern is deepening about RFK Jr.’s acts to mislead Americans about vaccine safety. Last week, RFK Jr. fired the entire panel of 17 medical and scientific experts who serve as members of the...
Proposed Medicaid cuts would mean benefit cuts for 1.4 million...
The House reconciliation bill, if enacted into law, would not only mean major cuts to Medicaid; it would also mean significant cuts to Medicare. More than 12 million people with Medicare are enrolled...
Medicare Advantage needs an overhaul
James C. Capretta, American Enterprise Institute, argues for changes in Medicare Advantage that “incentivize efficiency and high-quality care without needlessly overpaying the plans.” Who could...
The Senate reconciliation bill likely won’t target waste...
The Senate is now considering the House reconciliation bill, and it’s still anyone’s guess whether the more than $700 billion in Medicaid cuts will remain in the bill. These drastic Medicaid cuts...
House budget bill would result in 51,000 preventable deaths each...
A new paper out of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania finds that Medicaid and other health care cuts in the House reconciliation bill would lead to 51,000 preventable deaths each year. The...
Need magnesium in your diet? Try beets
Back in 2019, I wrote a post on why you want magnesium in your diet, which you can read here. More recently, Robert F. Shmerling, MD writes about the benefits of magnesium in your diet for Harvard...
$35,119: The average cost of a family’s health care
The cost of health care in the US continues to rise at a rate far faster than inflation. The average cost of health care for a family of four is now $35,119, according to the 2025 Milliman Medical...