For far too long, insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans have been able to hide the fact their networks are inadequate and mislead prospective and current Medicare Advantage enrollees about the...
Diane Archer
Republicans are coming after Medicare
We all know that Republicans have taken a sledgehammer to Medicaid, cutting $1 trillion over the next the years. Republicans also have not extended the premium subsidies for people with low incomes...
Emerging data reveal high ER death rates at private-equity owned...
A Harvard Medical School national study reveals higher patient death rates at private equity-owned US hospitals than at hospitals not private equity-owned, reports Jake Miller. Researchers at...
Progress in treating Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease develops when tiny amyloid-beta plaques build up between neurons in our brains. But, drugs that eliminate or reduce these plaques have not stopped, let alone, reversed, the...
Always appeal your health insurer’s denials; you have a...
Health insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans, corporate health plans, health plans on the state insurance exchanges and elsewhere seem to deny care indiscriminately. Who hasn’t been faced...
Have you gotten your shingles vaccine?
The shingles vaccine can be especially important for older adults. The vaccine blocks the development of painful rashes all over your body. It also has been found to reduce your risk of stroke, heart...
Will drug companies ever stop their misleading ads?
In a New York Times op-ed, Marty Makary MD, head of the Food and Drug Administration, explains the dangers of drug company advertisements. In short, they are misleading and harming millions of...
The immediate and long-term risks of even one alcoholic drink a...
Jillian Wilson writes for the Huffington Post on a new federal study that highlights both the immediate and long-term risks of drinking alcohol. The administration is not publishing the study, though...
Will the Trump administration stop the misleading Medicare...
Wendell Potter, President of the Center for Health and Democracy, writes for his Substack, Health Care un-covered, that if the Trump Administration truly wants to crack down on deceptive health care...
Can health systems make up for their Medicaid losses?
Hospitals are working hard to figure out how they will respond to enormous Medicaid cuts as a result of the Republican tax bill that President Trump recently signed into law. The hospitals serving...