Gout can be a painful health condition, often a type of arthritis, which generally involves swelling in the joints and can be extremely painful. About 9.2 million Americans live with gout. With gout...
Diane Archer
For the well-being of Americans, Democrats in Congress must...
Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, makes the case in The Hill that Democrats who want to help Americans should follow president-elect Biden’s lead and call for protecting...
Fox News: 72% voters want “government-run healthcare”
Vice-President Biden’s victory in the presidential election is cause for huge relief and celebration, though the number of people who voted for Trump should give us pause. What it means and how...
Coronavirus: Covid fee, a new addition to your health care bill
The novel coronavirus pandemic has taken a financial toll on many people and corporations, including many health care providers. But, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg report for the New York...
2020: Comparing your Medicare private options
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...
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...