As you’re thinking about your Medicare options this Fall, don’t be seduced by the bells and whistles available from some Medicare Advantage plans, the Medicare private options through which...
Diane Archer
Four things to think about when choosing a plan to fill gaps in...
While people with Medicare have the choice of public health insurance, government-administered traditional Medicare, or private health insurance, a commercial Medicare Advantage plan that provides...
Your projected Medicare benefits and costs in 2021
We’re in the midst of the annual Medicare Open Enrollment Period, but we still don’t know what Medicare costs will be in 2021. We do know, however, that Congress has limited the amount...
With private insurance, patients are not protected from bills...
Whatever good can be said about our current multi-payor health care system, it does not protect people from erroneous or surprise health care bills. What’s worse is that Congress is unable to...
Unlike private insurers, government works to ensure you receive...
Health care is not a television. Among other things, you have little clue what you are buying, both because private insurers hide critical information and because private insurers are constantly...
More than one in three older adults could be taking...
Should you be taking all the medications you are taking? With medicine, sometimes less is more. Judith Garber writes for the Lown Institute on a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics...
If we reduce administrative costs, we lower health care costs
In the Health Affairs Blog, Harvard economics professor, David M. Cutler, explains why health care administrative costs are extremely high and the need to lower them. Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and...
Majority of Americans support a public health insurance option
Vice-President Biden is proposing that the government offer people a public health insurance option, if he is elected President. A new Data for Progress poll finds that a large majority of voters...
Medicare Advantage: Will you get care from the doctors you want...
It’s Medicare Open Enrollment season in the midst of a novel coronavirus pandemic. If you have Medicare, you should be checking out your options for 2021. And, if you’re planning to...
FDA is hiding information on supplements that are dangerous
The FDA regulates dietary supplements, including beauty products, sexual enhancement products, and workout supplements. But, it does not make a determination about the safety or efficacy of these...