Odds are high–more than one in three–that you will develop some type of cancer in your lifetime. You’ve likely been told to avoid certain foods, such as processed meats, processed...
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Some Medicare prescription drug plans dropping insulin coverage
One of the many design and structural defects of the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit is that the health insurers offering coverage have enormous latitude to determine the drugs they will...
Critical home care is no longer affordable for most people and...
Caring for an older person with multiple needs can take a toll physically, emotionally and financially. Reed Abelson reports for The New York Times on how reliable home care is hard to come by and...
CMS can’t oversee AI denials in Medicare Advantage
Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Judy Chu and 28 other House members recently sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging CMS to assess AI denials in Medicare...
Medicare Advantage: Denials and more denials, some deadly
Remember the line about the bridge in Brooklyn? “If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.” Don’t fall for the con. It applies in spades to all the hype about...
Medicare Advantage: Denials increase 56 percent
The American Hospital Association just released findings that Medicare Advantage denials are up 56 percent. It seems the corporate health insurers offering people Medicare benefits through Medicare...
Long-term care insurance is broken
An article in the New York Times by Jordan Rau and JoNel Aleccia explains the broken long-term care insurance system in the United States. Not only are long-term care insurance policies expensive...
Reps and Dems angry about care denials in Medicare Advantage
Robert King writes for Politico about the Republican and Democratic anger directed at insurance companies for denying care inappropriately to older adults and people with disabilities enrolled in...
UnitedHealth deprives members of critical rehabilitation care
A new investigation by Bob Herman and Casey Ross, reported in Stat News, reveals that UnitedHealth, Humana and other insurers are using algorithms to deny critical rehabilitation care to people in...
Why health insurers deny necessary care and get away with it
If you’re wondering why insurance companies deny necessary care and get away with it, it’s not only that the insurers are pulling all the strings and have become too big to fail...