Health insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans, corporate health plans, health plans on the state insurance exchanges and elsewhere seem to deny care indiscriminately. Who hasn’t been faced...
Diane Archer
Have you gotten your shingles vaccine?
The shingles vaccine can be especially important for older adults. The vaccine blocks the development of painful rashes all over your body. It also has been found to reduce your risk of stroke, heart...
Will drug companies ever stop their misleading ads?
In a New York Times op-ed, Marty Makary MD, head of the Food and Drug Administration, explains the dangers of drug company advertisements. In short, they are misleading and harming millions of...
The immediate and long-term risks of even one alcoholic drink a...
Jillian Wilson writes for the Huffington Post on a new federal study that highlights both the immediate and long-term risks of drinking alcohol. The administration is not publishing the study, though...
Will the Trump administration stop the misleading Medicare...
Wendell Potter, President of the Center for Health and Democracy, writes for his Substack, Health Care un-covered, that if the Trump Administration truly wants to crack down on deceptive health care...
Can health systems make up for their Medicaid losses?
Hospitals are working hard to figure out how they will respond to enormous Medicaid cuts as a result of the Republican tax bill that President Trump recently signed into law. The hospitals serving...
How to save Medicaid dollars? Remove Medicaid’s insurer...
Physicians for a National Health Plan has just released a report, Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid: A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs, showing that the most cost-effective way to...
The most cost-effective way to strengthen Medicare
Tom Joyce reports for The Center Square on the $1.3 trillion in Medicare Advantage and other government waste over the next decade–overpayments that could go towards improving access to health...
Insurers dump 1.5 million + Medicare Advantage enrollees
Dozens of health systems across the country have been terminating their Medicare Advantage contracts. These terminations have left hundreds of thousands of older adults and people with disabilities...
Health care in Austria: A lesson in the virtues of relaxation
Saskia Solomon reports for The New York Times on health care in Austria, where the focus is on relaxation for people with serious heart problems, cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases and joint...