You’ve likely heard numerous times that walking at least 20 minutes a day is good for your health. But, did you know that a small amount of high-intensity exercise as little as twice a week...
Diane Archer
Eldera connects older adult mentors with young mentees around...
There’s nothing like a buddy to keep your mind and body active and to improve your health. Younger buddies can be especially meaningful and rewarding. Kerry Hannon reports for Next Avenue on a...
Strengthening Medicare Trust Fund must be a priority
Almost from its inception, the Medicare Trust Fund has been at risk of running out of money. The life of the Trust Fund has fluctuated tremendously over the last several decades. Whenever necessary...
UnitedHealth Group found guilty of denying millions needed care...
If you’ve ever wondered whether your health insurer was trying to get away with not paying your insurance claims when it was legally required to, you should stop. Based on mounds of evidence...
2020 Omnibus budget bill improves Medicare
The 2020 Omnibus budget bill that President Trump just signed into law includes key provisions that improve Medicare. The combined $1.4 trillion appropriations bill and $900 billion Covid relief bill...
Why Congress isn’t stopping ambulances from issuing...
The new federal law banning surprise medical bills does not do as good a job protecting people from unexpected bills as traditional Medicare–which does not allow them at all. It simply keeps...
Medicare coverage changes for 2021
Understandably, Americans fear the federal government these days at least as much as they value federal action. Federal action promoting the public good gets far less attention and credit than it...
Biden administration should remove Trump’s Social Security...
The Biden administration is going to have a lot of work to do in its initial days just in removing the Trump administration’s political appointees, among them those at the Social Security...
Government agency finds Medicare for all saves money
Matt Bruenig writes for Jacobin about the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of the cost of Medicare for All. The CBO finds that, with Medicare for all, everyone in the country would...
New law prevents doctors and hospitals from sending patients...
People with traditional Medicare never receive surprise medical bills because doctors are not allowed to bill them directly for services they receive, except in the rare instances in which they have...