Nicholas Bakalar reports for The New York Times on how extra fat in different parts of your body could affect your life expectancy. With fat in some places, you reduce your life expectancy. With fat...
Diane Archer
Blame President Trump if people with pre-existing conditions...
In an op-ed for the New York Times, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Andy Slavitt, and Nicholas Bagley explain how President Trump will be to blame if the new...
The Medicare Advantage scam and beyond
Kay Tillow writes for Daily Kos about the “Medicare Advantage scam” and beyond. She explains that these for-profit health plans that deliver Medicare benefits are using stars like Joe...
Trump vows to lower Medicare drug costs but backs lawsuit that...
President Trump has been unsuccessful at keeping pharmaceutical companies from raising prices, let alone enacting policies that lower them. So, he’s now claiming he is going to give $200 to...
New nonprofit manufactures low-cost generics
Congress has not done the job it should be doing to ensure adequate supplies of essential medicines, much less fair prices. So, Civica Rx, a nonprofit generic drug company, was established two years...
Coronavirus: Copper kills bacteria quickly
Hospitals have struggled to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus infection inside their facilities. And, shortages of personal protective equipment early on were a grave problem, but they were...
President Trump blows drug deal with Pharma
In the past couple of months, President Trump has issued four executive orders, which he claims could lead to lower prescription drug costs. The proof is in the pudding, and there is none. Now, after...
Congress can control hospital rates or allow them to soar
Because most hospitals have monopoly pricing power, private insurers are now paying on average 2.5 times more for hospital care than Medicare. Private health insurers have no way to rein in prices...
Could Walmart be where you go for health care?
Until Congress steps in to regulate our health care system effectively, it appears that corporations are going to take advantage of the great potential revenue in the health care sector, even if they...
Coronavirus: Where to live as you age?
The novel coronavirus has in no small way taken over all of our lives. It is also leading us to reconsider where to live as we age. Judith Graham reports for Kaiser Health News on new thinking among...