Aaron Carroll, President and CEO AcademyHealth, writes about our broken health care system on the Commonwealth Fund blog and explains how other wealthy countries do better for their citizens and...
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New bill in Congress would cancel medical debt
Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Ro Khanna just released a bill designed to cancel medical debt, reports Joan Greve for The Guardian. Senator Jeff Merkley and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib are...
Hospitals delay care for older adults in ERs, causing them...
Judith Graham reports for KFF Health News on the plight of older adults in hospital emergency rooms. Hospitals often keep older adults in their ERs for extended periods before getting them admitted...
Eat less intermittently, live longer?
Experiments with lab mice show that if you reduce their caloric intake by 30 to 40 percent, the mice typically live 30 percent longer. The goal is to reduce caloric intake enough to cause biological...
Humana threatens to close some Medicare Advantage plans and...
Suzanne Blake reports for Newsweek on the consequences of Humana closing some of its Medicare Advantage plans in 2025 and claiming it will reduce benefits in other Medicare Advantage plans in order...
Medicare Advantage: Hospice care is a juggle
Insurers clearly have not figured out how to profit from the Medicare hospice benefit, which offers comfort care for people who are terminally ill. Caitlin Owens reports for Axios that a government...
How to keep your teeth strong
Our teeth need our attention, and the mainstream media is letting us know! Knvul Sheikh and Lindsey Bever report for the New York Times and the Washington Post, respectively, on how to brush your...
CVS profits from manufacturing its own generic drugs
CVS has become the sixth largest corporation in America, owning not only a chain of pharmacies, but health insurance company Aetna, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM), Caremark, among other big...
Cigna medical directors given little incentive to review prior...
A new Pro Publica report exposes how Cigna requires its medical directors to review prior authorization denials at breakneck speed, preventing patients from getting critical care. One medical...
UnitedHealth care delays, denies and grows ever bigger
At the same time that UnitedHealth is growing its Medicare Advantage business, it is growing many of its other businesses and controlling a sizeable portion of the health care sector, often to the...