The only question that matters when it comes to health insurance is whether it will meet your health needs when you have a costly and complex condition. Based on mounds of evidence, Medicare...
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Congressional candidates beware: Oppose lowering drug prices at...
The Alliance for Retired Americans (“ARA”) just released a poll showing that older adults so want affordable prescription drugs that they say they would switch political parties to...
Is medication an appropriate treatment for loneliness?
Judith Garber writes for the Lown Institute about the overmedication of isolated older adults. Loneliness can have severe health consequences. But, treating loneliness with too many medicines has...
Coronavirus: Older adults more likely to be vaccinated...
The Delta variant of the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc in the US because so many Americans remain unvaccinated. Thankfully, 90 percent of older adults have received at least one COVID-19...
Republicans have a plan to cut Social Security and Medicare
Jake Johnson reports in Common Dreams that Senator Lindsey Graham is using the Republicans’ leverage in Congress to cut Social Security and Medicare. Only if Democrats agree to these cuts would...
Medical debt is far greater than originally understood
The New York Times reports on new research revealing that medical debt is far greater in the US than originally thought. The amount of medical debt is particularly high in states that refused to...
Do you have A-fib and what to do about it?
Jane Brody reports for The New York Times on “A-fib” or “atrial fibrillation,” a relatively common heart condition that many people do not realize they have. If you get tired...
Hospital prices demand government attention
In an opinion piece for the Financial Times, a surgeon, Nisarg Patel, argues that hospital prices are the big problem with our health care system. Hospital prices demand government...
Senate Dems’ budget package would improve Medicare
The Senate Democrats have a $3.5 trillion budget package that would improve and expand Medicare. It assumes large savings from Medicare drug price negotiation that can be spent on these improvements...
Biden steps in on drug prices
David Dayen reports in the American Prospect on new developments at the White House regarding legislation that would lower prescription drug prices. President Joe Biden’s executive order on...