Jonathan Cohn reports for the Huffington Post on Bernie Sanders’ move to chair the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee. Under Sanders’ leadership, the HELP...
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Medicare patients with liver cancer face $10,000 in...
Even with Medicare, out-of-pocket costs for people with liver cancer can be unaffordable. A recent study found that Medicare patients must spend $10,000 out of pocket for medical and hospital care in...
Advocates launch pledge campaign to protect Social Security and...
Social Security Works, More Perfect Union, Indivisible, MoveOn, and many other prominent organizations have launched a campaign demanding that members of Congress pledge to protect Social Security...
Government overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans grow, while...
Earlier this month, MedPAC, the agency that oversees Medicare payments, released a slide deck showing ever-increasing government overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans.The total overpayments...
Multigenerational family housing can work
Paula Span reports for the New York Times on multigenerational family residences. Think of them as family compounds, with a main house and a separate unit for the extended family. These...
Case study: Costco saves one couple hundreds of dollars over...
If you ask me, often the smartest way to save money on prescription drugs is to import them from abroad. But, though no one has ever reported a safety issue from importing drugs from verified...
New government rule lets Medicare Advantage pocket tens of...
For years, the federal government has been overpaying Medicare Advantage plans tens of millions of dollars for wrongful or fraudulent diagnosis codes without trying to recoup almost any of that...
Trump advises Republicans not to cut Social Security and Medicare
Surprise, surprise. Donald Trump is advising Republicans that “under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security.” Time will tell whether he...
Poll: Many more older adults delayed care because of cost in 2022
Nearly four in ten Americans reported that they or a family member delayed health care last year because of the cost. That’s an all-time high and a huge increase from the year before. Even with...
Case study: Medicare Advantage delays, denials and consequences
Rick Timmins, a retiree in Washington State, reports the delays and denials he has faced trying to get care while enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan in Washington State. The costs of these delays...