In the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, Paul Hewitt and Phillip Longman make the case for single-price health care, proposing Medicare prices for all. They explain how the Affordable Care...
Diane Archer
How to improve access to medicines? Fix incentives
At the Lown Institute annual conference, Vinay Prasad, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Sciences University, explained how to improve access to medicines–how to...
Should you be taking vitamins?
Liz Szabo reports for the New York Times that older Americans are popping supplements like candy. Doctors may recommend certain vitamins like vitamin D and folic acid, and dozens of others are...
Hundreds of patient advocacy groups are Pharma shills
About a year ago, a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the overwhelming majority of patient advocacy groups that are disease organizations are funded by industry and governed...
Free and low-cost ways to address hearing loss
While our hearing is likely to weaken with age, there are things we can do to address hearing loss. Hearing aids can be very expensive—as much as $3500 for a single hearing aid and most people...
When will Congress control health care costs?
A February 2018 West Health Institute/NORC poll, complements findings from a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll. It finds that unreasonable health care costs have driven four in ten Americans to...
Get the preventive care you need: Medicare pays for it
Preventive care is very important, especially as you age. As you get older, vision, hearing and balance should be checked annually. And, you should get a flu shot every year as well. Fortunately...
How to get free or low-cost dental care
Because dental care can be so expensive and most insurance—including Medicare—does not cover it, it is the number one health care service people skimp on. As a result, people put themselves at...
Medicare for all important to majority of 2018 voters
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll reveals that Medicare for all and lower drug prices are important to the majority of 2018 voters. Indeed, a strong majority of Republicans as well as Democrats and...
Hospital care at home
More hospitals are training their emergency room staff in geriatric care and building geriatric ERs. At the same time, hospitals are increasingly finding ways to provide the kind of inpatient care...