You might consider the choice between private Medicare Advantage and public traditional Medicare as a trade-off between Silver Sneakers and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. When you opt for a...
Diane Archer
Avoid supplements, no matter how enticing they might be
There’s a common, often mistaken, view that supplements can help build muscle, trim fat, sharpen thinking, enhance memory and provide all sorts of other benefits. Some supplements may do no...
Until you’re vaccinated, consider wearing two masks to...
There’s some good news for older adults on the novel coronavirus front. Of the people vaccinated to date, more than 40 percent are older adults who now have significant protection against...
To save money, invest in Medicare not Obamacare
Most experts agree that health care costs in the US are out of control. And, Congress needs to rein them in because corporate health insurers have shown year after year that they cannot. Gerald...
We pay a lot more than we realize for prescription drugs
One thing the overwhelming majority of Americans agree on is that drug prices are too high and that the government should rein them in. Incredibly, we pay a lot more than we even realize for...
Well-kept secrets of Medicare Advantage plans
In the last few weeks, I’ve given a couple of talks focused on Medicare Advantage. I always highlight the biggest well-kept secrets of Medicare Advantage plans, summarized below. They should...
Medicare for all would rationalize the cost of care
In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, David Lazarus explains that, if we did not rely on private health insurers, our costs for care would be half of what they are and outcomes would be...
Planning for outdoor cold weather activity: What you may not know
Pandemic or not, we all need to be exercising. It’s good for the mind and the body. Kelly Dinardo reports for the New York Times on what you might not know about staying warm and exercising...
Biden administration acts to ensure people with disabilities...
The Trump administration worked hard to destroy Social Security every which way it could. Among other things, it made it extraordinarily difficult for people to get the Social Security benefits to...
Several states plan to import drugs from Canada
With drug prices in the US now substantially more than twice as much as in other countries, Donald Trump issued an executive order in his final days as president allowing states to import many drugs...