In a New York Times op-ed, Geeta Ananad warns against expecting assisted living facilities to meet the needs of aging parents once they lose their independence. Rather, she explains that assisted...
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New Medicare rule requires insurers to tell people their...
Even though health care costs can be sky high, people often have little clue what their copay will be in advance of getting a service or filling a prescription, which leads many to skip care...
Private health insurers don’t let you budget for your care
Kaiser Health News reports that people with the wherewithal to shop around for affordable health care can easily end up with bigger bills than they expected. Unlike traditional Medicare, private...
Health care information confuses people
The Center for Retirement Research blog focuses on how health care information tends to confuse people more than help them. As a result, many people make poor health care choices. In truth...
Eat better, spend less on health care
So long as the US population is aging, health care costs will continue to increase no matter what happens with health care reform. An op-ed in the New York Times, by Dariush Mozzafarian and Dan...
President Trump wants to gut Medicare
We already know that President Trump has proposed slashing Medicare spending in his budget proposals. Now, Bess Levin reports for Vanity Fair that President Trump has told friends that he would...
John Oliver: Racism and sexism in medicine
Most Americans respect doctors. Still, racism and sexism in medicine is not uncommon. John Oliver explores this topic in Last Week Tonight. Biases in medicine, as in every profession, abound. In...
Medicare Advantage costs taxpayers more than traditional Medicare
If you look at the data, the private health insurance industry has not succeeded at innovating to rein in Medicare spending through the Medicare Advantage program. A new paper on the Health Affairs...
Hospital rating systems are all flawed
You should choose your hospital carefully, but do not rely on a hospital rating system. A new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that all hospital rating systems are flawed. While the...
Medicare could have saved billions had enrollees used more...
Stat reports on new findings in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealing that Medicare and older adults would have saved billions had more people used generic drugs instead of brand-name drugs. Why...