Too often, hospitals in the US discharge patients before they are able to care for themselves. After a complex surgery, managing for yourself in your own home, where most people want to be, can be...
Diane Archer
2026: Health insurers keep raising premiums, while profiting...
Be it in Medicare Advantage or with health insurance for working people, insurers keep increasing people’s out-of-pocket costs and using prior authorization to deny medically necessary care...
Feeling isolated? Look into virtual communities
Increasingly, virtual communities are engaging homebound older adults and helping to address social isolation. Loneliness and social isolation are serious public health issues affecting older adults...
US adopts Danish vaccine recommendations, endangering the lives...
Unlike Denmark’s health care system, which guarantees free health care to everyone in most cases, our health care system is unaffordable and does not work well for tens of millions of...
Humana distorts its Medicare Advantage data: What you see is not...
Humana has been misleading investors about the value of its Medicare Advantage primary care clinics, reports Casey Ross and Tara Bannow for StatNews. Humana was investing almost $2 billion to expand...
Virtual communities engage homebound older adults, address...
Tens of thousands of homebound older adults live in near or total isolation. Fortunately, online communities can help ensure social engagement. The editorial board of the New York Times reports on a...
Government can’t control corporate greed in Medicare Rx...
Everyone with Medicare should have Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage unless they have drug coverage from another source and virtually everyone does. But, our government can’t control...
Poll: People with government health insurance more satisfied...
As a rule, people who are relatively healthy–-most people–-are generally satisfied with their health insurance. And, it’s easy to understand why. They do not face access, cost or quality issues...
Shingles vaccine appears to fend off dementia
Researchers at Stanford University have found that the shingles vaccine could help your brain and fend off dementia. The study results, published in Cell, are particularly compelling because the...
Insurers fight bill in Congress that would lower Medicare...
The “No Unreasonable Payments, Coding, or Diagnoses for the Elderly” (No UPCODE) Act, S.1105 is a bi-partisan bill designed to strengthen Medicare. It would reduce by about 10 percent the...