Secretary Clinton is proposing a Medicare buy-in for people between 55 and 64 and a public health insurance option in the state health insurance exchanges. The public health insurance option was...
Diane Archer
Accountable Health Communities offer services and supports
Compelling evidence shows that social supports help promote good health. So, as part of its mandate to test innovations under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government’s Center for...
8.3 million people benefit from both Medicare and Medicaid
Medicaid is a joint federal and state public health insurance program for 70 million vulnerable people in the United States, funded in large part by the federal government and in some part by each...
Vast majority of Americans support government drug price...
A September 2016 Kaiser Family Foundation poll reveals that a growing number of Americans say “no” to the way pharmaceutical companies are allowed to do business. They find drug prices...
New cuts proposed for Social Security Administration
Back in June, I reported for Just Care that Congress was keeping the Social Security Administration from spending its own money to administer benefits effectively. As a result, SSA was going to need...
FAIR Act would force drug makers to justify big price hikes
A bi-partisan group of Senators and Representatives, led by Tammy Baldwin and John McCain introduced a bill earlier this month requiring drug makers to justify big price hikes. Any time a...
Pharma pushing states to cover high-cost drugs
When it comes to drug innovations, many would argue that pharmaceutical companies serve the public less well than hoped for. When it comes to marketing innovations or initiatives that drive greater...
Hospices misleading patients, overbilling Medicare
A new report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals that some hospices are misleading patients and defrauding Medicare. Hospices did not inform patients as required that when they elect...
Drug companies must now disclose most clinical trial results
For years, drug and medical device companies have been able to conduct clinical trials and then, depending upon results, determine which ones to make public. They were not required to let the public...
33 Senators call for Medicare-like option for all Americans
Last Thursday, 27 United States senators called for a Medicare-like option in the state health exchanges. Senators Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, Patty Murray, Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer, along...