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...
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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...
What a new Congress should do to lower Rx prices
Prescription drug prices keep rising. That’s to be expected since Congress has given pharmaceutical companies monopoly pricing power for their brand-name drugs, along with the ability to market...
Coronavirus: Many older adults are exercising more
Gretchen Reynolds reports for The New York Times on a new study showing that most adults are exercising less during the coronavirus pandemic. But, interestingly, many older adults are exercising...
Pharma doesn’t have your back
You might think that Pharma is doing more good than harm, but, watch out, it does not put your interests first; it doesn’t have your back. Stat News reports that the pharmaceutical industry has...