Despite campaign claims to rein in prescription drug prices and drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, President Trump appears to have strong and unseemly links to Pharma. Novartis gained White...
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Health care costs in retirement average $140,000
Arielle O’Shea reports in Forbes that a couple who retires this year should expect to spend $280,000 on health care costs over the rest of their lifetime. Put differently, individual...
Insurers donate to Democrats in attempt to undermine support for...
Tarbell reports that commercial health insurers are supporting Democrats with larger campaign contributions as a way to undermine their support for a government-administered Medicare for all health...
Are we spending too much on health care at end of life?
A new study in Science, by Amy Finkelstein et al., suggests that we may not be spending too much on health care at the end of life. Rather, we may be spending a lot on health care when people have...
A Fitbit of sorts for your stomach
StatNews reports on a new implantable sensor in development at MIT labs that allows people to relay information on what their bodies are doing. The developers describe it as “a Fitbit of sorts...
Don’t be misled by “five-star” nursing home ratings
In the fall of 2014, The New York Times reported that Medicare five-star nursing home ratings do not ensure quality because key data is self-reported. A new follow-up investigation by Kaiser...
Organizing older adults to defend our health care
A recent paper by Community Catalyst’s Leena Sharma, Carol Regan and Katherine Villers published in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, looks at the history and future of advocacy by older...
Another study confirms, it’s the prices, stupid
Why do we spend so much more on health care than other countries? In 2003, Gerard Anderson and Uwe Reinhard et al. explained, It’s the prices stupid: Why the US is so different from other...
Amazon plans to sell and distribute prescription drugs
Amazon appears to be expanding into the retail market in health care with its plan to purchase PillPack, an online pharmacy that is growing quickly. Stat News reports that PillPack sells and...
The danger of letting Medicare Advantage plans divert money away...
The 2018 Chronic Care Act allows Medicare Advantage plans to offer enrollees non-medical services that may improve health and patient safety. However, the danger of letting Medicare Advantage plans...