In a new AARP Public Policy Institute paper, Harriet Komisar and Claire Noel-Miller explain why Traditional Medicare is a critical part of the Medicare program, both for all its enrollees and for the...
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Genes play an important role in how long you live
A new study, published in Science, which looks at how twins living apart age, finds that how long you will live is largely dependent on your genes. Contrary to earlier estimates that genes play no...
How to reduce your risk of Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease has become an extremely common neurological condition throughout the world. Eight and a half million people have Parkinson’s today, twice as many as in 2000. And, experts...
Government proposal would meaningfully reduce overpayments in...
Medicare Advantage overpayments are driving up Medicare premiums, depleting the Medicare Trust Fund and endangering Medicare’s sustainability. They are projected to cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion...
Rx Inspector helps you avoid unsafe generics
Sometimes, out of nowhere, your new prescription drugs can be ineffective or, worse still, cause unpleasant side effects. In some cases, the reason is that the manufacturer messed up. Pro Publica has...
Six ways to keep your brain young and healthy
Rudolf Tanzi has been studying the brain for more than 45 years. He believes that our brains can do a lot more than we push them to do. And, people who work their brains hard also better themselves...
Insurers refuse to accept blame for high health care costs and...
Based on the statements of both Republicans and Democrats at a Congressional hearing the other day, you’d think that they appreciate that corporate health insurers are unable to contain costs or...
“Barriers and bias” in Medicare Advantage keep people from...
Medicare Advantage plans are once again found to inappropriately deny enrollees fair access to nursing home care, reports Kimberly Marselis for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. While Medicare...
Health care reforms that build on the Affordable Care Act...
Amid persisting and growing concerns about health care costs and complexity, Third Way, a centrist think tank, proposes a health care bill of rights intended to guarantee people good health care, yet...
Pricing drugs in the US at the same level as other wealthy...
President Trump has repeatedly said that Americans should pay no more than people in other wealthy nations for our drugs. To date, he has not been willing or able to deliver on this. If Trump is...