A growing number of hospitals are offering people both hospital emergency room services and urgent care at one site, reports Philip Galewitz for KFF Health News. This model could be a financial...
Diane Archer
Drug prices keep going up, some faster than inflation
Until Congress regulates drug prices in the US as every other wealthy country does, prescription drug prices will continue to go up and an increasing number of Americans will suffer or die because...
Bipartisan agreement on how to keep drug middlemen from ripping...
A new bill in Congress would end some of the most egregious practices of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), reports Annika Kim Constantino for CNBC. PBMs are the drug middlemen who negotiate lower...
More hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage
Jakob Emerson reports for Becker’s Hospital Review that at least 17 large hospital systems are dropping their Medicare Advantage contracts this year. As we’ve seen over the last couple of...
Low-income communities are particularly at risk in Medicare...
Insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans too often delay and deny care inappropriately. If you happen to live in a low-income community, you are more likely to be forced to join a Medicare...
Get your Covid vaccine: Reduce your risk of long Covid
Pam Belluck reports for the New York Times on new findings showing that people who get Covid-19 vaccines reduce their risk of long Covid. Long Covid can cause serious symptoms such as exhaustion and...
FTC criticizes Rx middlemen in new report
In a health care world filled with insane prices and complexities, the prescription drug middlemen, sometimes called Pharmacy Benefit Managers or PBMs, are at the top of the “is this even...
Nearly half of Americans can’t afford their health care
Time passes and health care costs rise, as do the number of Americans who can’t afford their health care, according to a new Gallup and West Health poll, reports Aimee Picchi for CBS News. Not...
Mental health care is unaffordable for one in four Americans...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins found that 25 percent of adults with anxiety and depression in the US cannot afford to pay their mental health care bills, keeping them from receiving psychiatric care...
Do you have a durable power of attorney?
Life has its curve balls, as we all know. And, we and the people we love are all better off if we’re prepared for them. That’s why everyone should have a durable power of attorney. A...