Physicians for a National Health Plan has just released a report, Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid: A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs, showing that the most cost-effective way to...
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The most cost-effective way to strengthen Medicare
Tom Joyce reports for The Center Square on the $1.3 trillion in Medicare Advantage and other government waste over the next decade–overpayments that could go towards improving access to health...
Insurers dump 1.5 million + Medicare Advantage enrollees
Dozens of health systems across the country have been terminating their Medicare Advantage contracts. These terminations have left hundreds of thousands of older adults and people with disabilities...
Health care in Austria: A lesson in the virtues of relaxation
Saskia Solomon reports for The New York Times on health care in Austria, where the focus is on relaxation for people with serious heart problems, cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases and joint...
What to know about chronic kidney disease
Some 15 percent of adults in the US have chronic kidney disease and the vast majority of them don’t know it. They don’t learn they have it until it is quite advanced, reports Rachel...
Need help with Social Security? Be ready to speak with a robot
If you have a question for Social Security these days, be ready to speak with a robot. More than four in ten calls to SocialSecurity now go directly to the bot. Unfortunately, if you end up talking ...
Reduce your risk of diabetes, eat healthy
Diabetes is most prevalent among people over 65. As many as 26 percent of older Americans have diabetes. But, new evidence indicates that older adults can reduce their risk of diabetes if they follow...
CVS and Walgreens make getting a Covid vaccine a nightmare in...
Covid infections are rising, but CVS and Walgreens have decided that they will not administer Covid vaccines in more than 12 states. Maggie Astor and Dani Blum report for The New York Times that the...
AI wearable robot can help stroke patients move
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS and stroke, often result in lack of motor function. It becomes challenging for people with these conditions to lift an arm or simply move. But, bioengineers at...
Medicare Advantage insurers pay doctors and hospitals as much as...
The 2025 Omniscient Health Physician Medicare Income Report confirms what physicians have been saying: Insurers offering Medicare Advantage HMOs and PPOs pay doctors and hospitals as much as 15...