It’s hard to avoid eating ultraprocessed foods. They can be very delicious. Who can resist a candy bar, french fries, ice cream, or doughnuts? But, Sandy LaMotte reports for CNN on the latest...
Diane Archer
Five Medicare issues for Congress in 2023
The new year is less than a month away and with it will come a Republican-led House of Representatives and a divided Congress. People hoping for improvements to Medicare should not be holding their...
People with disabilities face undue delays getting Social...
Lisa Rein reports for the Washington Post on the inability of Social Security offices to meet the needs of people who are applying for disability benefits. In some states, the backlog is staggering...
Corporate health plans for people with Medicare can be a...
In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Helaine Olen lays out the disadvantages of Medicare Advantage plans, corporate health plans offering benefits to people with Medicare. Olen warns that...
Assisted living facilities should do more for residents
Assisted living facilities should address people’s medical and mental health needs. Older and frailer people are now living in these facilities. Judith Graham writes for Kaiser Health News on a...
Profiteers turn hospice into a $22 billion industry
Ava Kofman writes for the New Yorker on the profiteers who have turned hospice care into a $22 billion dollar a year industry. Rather than being about dying with dignity, hospice is too often all...
Have arthritis? Beware of corticosteroid injections
New studies reveal that getting corticosteroid injections to relieve the pain of arthritis might actually cause your arthritis to worsen. NBC news reports on two small studies which found that people...
Surgery comes with life-threatening risks for older adults
Almost 14 percent of older adults die soon after receiving major surgery. They face life-threatening risks from surgery, according to a new study. Judith Graham reports for Kaiser Health News on the...
DiRx cuts out Rx middlemen to lower costs
Why should insurers be involved in people’s purchase of prescription drugs? Allison Bell writes for Think Advisor about Satish Srinivasan, whose company eliminates insurers and PBMs from...
Congress should lift debt ceiling, protect against Republican...
In an op-ed for The Hill, Nancy Altman, Chair of Social Security Works, speaks to the Democrats’ need to lift the debt ceiling during the lame duck session of Congress. If they don’t, the...