The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees Medicare drug price negotiation, just released details regarding the 15 drugs with negotiated prices that will take effect in...
Diane Archer
The tradeoff between “extra” benefits and fewer...
Medicare Advantage insurers offer “extra” benefits to lure people to sign up for a Medicare Advantage plan. But, what they don’t tell people is that Medicare Advantage plans engage...
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare for All
A new poll by Data for Progress finds that two-thirds of Americans support Medicare for All, aka, a national health insurance program. Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities and want...
Trump administration’s proposed Medicare Advantage reforms...
All sorts of proposed changes for people in Medicare Advantage are afoot, reports Allison Bell for ThinkAdvisor. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released proposed rules effective...
Can the US provide needed care without immigrant doctors?
The United States has had a shortage of physicians for several decades. It is only because immigrant physicians have come to the US that we have been able to address the shortage, particularly in...
Practicing yoga can improve your sleep
A meta-analysis of 30 trials in more than 12 countries found that regular high-intensity yoga is more likely to improve your sleep than weight exercises, aerobic exercise, Chinese exercise and...
Almost 10 percent of Americans say they have or have had cancer...
A new Gallup survey finds that almost 10 percent of Americans say they have or have had cancer, reports Avery Lotz for Axios. That’s the bad news. The good news is that fewer people in the US...
Community living for people with dementia can have tremendous...
Today, some 500,000 people in the US are diagnosed with dementia each year. Black Americans are twice as likely to develop dementia as White Americans. Only a small percentage of people with dementia...
Senator Sanders recognizes need for array of health care...
Senator Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is asking Senate Democrats to come together behind major health care reforms when they...
Insurers misuse prior authorization even for simple treatments
One big insurer, Anthem, denied coverage inappropriately to a woman who needed medicine to ward off Lyme disease on the ground that she failed to get prior authorization for her care. Even when the...