Older adults and people with disabilities have the choice of private health plans that offer Medicare benefits, sometimes called Medicare Advantage plans. Through an analysis of mortality rates at...
Diane Archer
Hospital care: Three major inequities
A post in Medicine and Social Justice by Josh Freeman, MD, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and the University of Kansas Medical Center, highlights three major inequities in the US health...
Drug prices: It’s time for the federal government to step...
Fran Quigley writes for Common Dreams about the need to end pharmaceutical company monopolies if drug prices are going to come down. The federal government right now could exercise its “march...
Telehealth is likely here to stay
It seems as if telehealth is working quite well for a large segment of the US population during the novel coronavirus pandemic, including older adults and people with disabilities. The Centers for...
Can public health insurance lower health care costs?
With millions of Americans staying away from the doctor and hospital during this pandemic, the private health insurance industry has delivered big profits to its shareholders. At the same time, it is...
Why does private health insurance work well in Europe?
Many Americans wonder why private health insurance works to guarantee people good affordable care in Europe but does not seem to work anywhere near as well in the United States. The answer is simple...
Coronavirus: Four ways to develop immunity
We have now learned that people can get COVID-19 more than once. And, we have a lot of questions about what the future holds in store for us, including how well a vaccine will work. Helen Branswell...
Is it valuable to have health plan choice?
Is choice of health plans what any American wants, asks Austin Frakt in a New York Times piece. Or do people simply want affordable choice of doctors and hospitals? Why would anyone want choice of...
Coronavirus: Will your mail-order drugs arrive on time?
The Trump administration made changes to the US Postal Service in July that could determine whether you receive your mail-order drugs on time. Since then, the changes are on hold. The Kaiser Family...
Coronavirus: What happened at a nursing home in Washington
Katie Engelhart reports for California Sunday on what happened at Life Care Center of Kirkland, the first COVID-19 hot spot in America and, more generally, the role of the nursing home industry in...