A new paper in Health Affairs by Paul Jacobs looks at the impact of Medicare on access to affordable care. It finds that enrolling in Medicare–be it traditional Medicare or Medicare...
Diane Archer
Let’s legalize drug importation and import drug prices
In an opinion piece on addressing high prescription drug prices for The Hill, Gabriel Levitt and Steven Salant argue that Congress should allow drug imports from legitimate pharmacies around the...
What will it take for Congress to cap hospital prices?
RAND just released a new study by Jody L. Liu confirming what multiple other studies have found: If the federal government were to put a cap on hospital prices, we could save tens of billions of...
Clover Health exposes risks of Medicare Advantage
A little known company, Clover Health, has done quite a job breaking into the Medicare Advantage business. It raised millions from Wall Street, went public, and upped its valuation into the billions...
Do Medicare Advantage plans give you appropriate access to...
Most Medicare Advantage plans establish networks that restrict your access to doctors and hospitals. And, the data show that people in Medicare Advantage plans overall have a greater chance of...
Your Medicare choice: Silver Sneakers v. Memorial Sloan-Kettering
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...
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...