Of all the health care plans in America, traditional Medicare does the most to ensure people get needed care. Unlike private insurance, which increasingly rations care based on people’s ability...
Diane Archer
Insurers limiting drug coverage to keep people with costly...
When was the last time you heard of a health insurer advertising its first class cancer care, its impressive slew of specialists or its low costs to people with complex conditions? In fact...
More than four in ten clinical trial results are not available...
To shed more light on safe and effective drug treatments, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS issued a final rule requiring all institutions performing clinical trials to post a...
Get active: Go motorbiking
What’s your motorcycle? Where would you ride? With whom?
Six states allow assisted suicide, death with dignity
We all have different views about what death with dignity means. For some of us, it means choosing when we want to die if we are terminally ill. Colorado just passed a law legalizing assisted...
Medicare is more efficient than private insurance
Note: This post is a version of a post first published on Health Affairs on September 20, 2011. The links on this version of the post are to the same CBO, MedPAC and other documents in the Health...
What’s the Medicare premium in 2017?
The monthly Medicare Part B premium in 2017 technically is $134.00, up 10 percent from this year, for people with incomes of $85,000 or less. It’s a big increase, but half as much as the...
New and innovative home and community-based services for older...
According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund, 12 million older adults with Medicare have mild or serious physical or cognitive impairments (PCI) but millions cannot afford home and community...
Two 100 year-old friends discuss pop culture
Be positive about aging and be healthier in old age
Some say you are what you do. Others say you are what you think. In fact, Becca Levy, PhD, Yale University, who has studied people’s views about growing older, finds that people who think more...