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...
Diane Archer
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...
Government-administered long-term care insurance is long overdue
Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, more than 46,000 people have died in nursing homes. The private health care market is failing, and government-administered long-term care...
Coronavirus: Are hospitals prepared for the flu season?
Now that we are more than eight months into the novel coronavirus, you might think that hospitals in the United States, the wealthiest nation in the world, would have the supplies they need to...
Joe Biden will build a strong public health infrastructure
Atul Gawande makes the case for electing Joe Biden President in the New Yorker. He argues that a Biden administration will build a strong public health infrastructure to control the pandemic, which...