Merck just filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Inflation Reduction Act‘s provision allowing Medicare to negotiate some drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. The administration...
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How can people protect themselves from unsafe hospitals?
Mary Chris Jaklevic reports for Kaiser Health News on a new patient safety initiative intended to ensure hospitals learn from medical errors. People are calling for a “National Patient Safety...
Medicare Advantage poses grave risk to rehab facilities and...
Brendan Williams, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Health Care Association and a former state insurance regulator, writes for McKnight’s about Medicare Advantage’s existential...
How to improve digital literacy among older adults and why...
Richard Eisenberg writes for Fortune about the large proportion of people with Medicare at risk because they are not computer literate and might not even have access to a computer. A majority of...
When will the Medicare Advantage scam end?
Matthew Cunningham-Cook writes for The Lever on why Medicare Advantage is a scam, focusing on the $20 billion in overpayments the insurers offering Medicare Advantage now receive each year. Health...
What happens when Medicare Advantage overpayments end?
Tens of billions of dollars a year in Medicare Advantage overpayments are taking a huge toll on the Medicare Trust Fund and driving up Medicare Part B premiums. They also are not deterring Medicare...
Heart disease is on the rise, especially for people over 65
Cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease and coronary artery disease kills more than 800,000 people each year. It’s the number one killer for people over 65. And, Judith Graham...
Nearly three in 10 Americans opt to forgo medical care because...
A Federal Reserve report released last month on the economic well-being of Americans finds that nearly three in 10 Americans opted to forgo medical care because of the cost in 2022. And, the plight...
Will Kaiser Permanente’s purchase of Geisinger benefit...
In an op-ed for Forbes, Robert Pearl, MD, former longtime CEO of California-based Permanente Medical Group–the part of Kaiser Permanente responsible for health care delivery–shares his...
Can AI help with medical advice?
A post by the Lown Institute asks whether AI (artificial intelligence) could replace your doctors and provide you with as good or better medical advice? It picks up on a JAMA Internal Medicine...