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...
Diane Archer
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...
Medicaid corporate insurer networks block access to care
Most states contract with corporate health insurers to deliver health care benefits to their residents on Medicaid. A PNHP report shows that these for-profit insurers cost states more than if they...
Republicans move in the wrong direction on health care
Republicans in Congress are trying to figure out what to do on the health care front, now that they’ve refused to continue additional subsidies for people on the ACA health care exchanges...
2026: What are your Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket costs?
The federal government is raising the Part B Medicare premium to $202.90 in 2026, almost 10 percent more than this year and way higher than the rate of inflation. Under the law, people with Medicare...
Prior authorization: What is to be done?
If there’s one thing about health insurance that just about everyone can agree on, it is that prior authorization is hell. Corporate health insurers use prior authorization to delay and deny care...
State insurance commissioners aim to protect people from...
Jonalyn Cueto reports for InsuranceBusinessMag that state insurance commissioners are speaking out against Medicare Advantage insurers because they are gaming the system and harming people with...