What’s a low-cost path to a longer life? Mohana Ravindranath reports for the New York Times reports on what the experts advise, and the answer is clear: Skip the expensive memberships and other...
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How long can you stand on one leg with your eyes closed?
Rae Witte reports for National Geographic on the importance of being able to stand on one leg with your eyes closed for at least 10 seconds as you age. Put differently, you might have a health...
Medicare Advantage doesn’t work for rural Americans
Rural Americans with Medicare are in a bind. Too often, they cannot afford the high cost of supplemental coverage that limits out-of-pocket costs in traditional Medicare. And Medicare Advantage HMOs...
Trump could easily end high drug costs
In an op-ed for MarketWatch, Brett Arends explains that President Trump names the wrong culprit when it comes to prescription drug prices in America. The problem is not that pharmaceutical companies...
Vast majority of Americans don’t understand their health...
A new health literacy study finds that just 20 percent of people with health insurance through their employers feel they understand their coverage, reports Alan Goforth for BenefitsPro. While the...
John Oliver: RFK Jr., a danger to our public health
In a piece for Last Week Tonight, focused on public health, John Oliver skewers RFK Jr. for the damage he has wrought on the nation’s health. RFK Jr. has led a dramatic downsizing of the...
UnitedHealth’s stock price dropped significantly; more...
Recently, UnitedHealth’s stock price dropped more than 22 percent, the most it has dropped in 25-plus years. The corporation’s stated reason was that enrollees are using more care. But...
Federal cuts to Medicaid will have devastating consequences for...
About 12 million older adults and people with disabilities are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. For most services, Medicare is the primary payer and Medicaid secondary. For services that...
When your doctors leave your Medicare HMO, will the government...
If you opt for an insurer-run Medicare Advantage HMO over government-run traditional Medicare, be prepared for your treating physicians and hospital to leave the HMO’s network. As Susan Jaffe...
Fun ways to find happiness
As I see it, happiness and optimism go hand in hand. And, optimism is one key to a long life, according to many experts. So, I wanted to share some innovative thoughts from a recent article in The...