Private equity firms are buying up our health care system piece by piece–hospitals, nursing homes, hospice agencies, emergency rooms, specialty practices and more. Health care costs are rising...
Diane Archer
UnitedHealth will cut Medicare Advantage plans covering 600,000...
UnitedHealth is rethinking its Medicare Advantage strategy. To maximize profits, it is ending its Medicare Advantage plans in certain communities and narrowing the number of PPOs it offers. Six...
2025: More older adults gamble with their health in Medicare...
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans can be deadly. Yet the upfront costs of enrolling in MA are low as compared with traditional Medicare and most people do not understand the risks they are taking when...
Millions of Americans face higher medical bills.
Noam Levey reports for KFF Health News that President Trump’s policies will lead millions of Americans to face higher medical bills. Today, some 100 million Americans have some form of medical...
Auto-enrollment in Medicare Advantage is a bad idea
Most Republicans and Democrats in Congress appear to agree that all too often Medicare Advantage isn’t working well. As a result of inappropriate prior authorization policies, inadequate...
New EU tariffs on prescription products could drive up drug...
If you’ve been reading Just Care or the news about the Trump reconciliation bill, you already know that Americans are likely to face higher drug costs. You might not know, however, that...
Bipartisan bill attempts to fix widespread insurer underpayments...
Whatever you think about Medicare Advantage plans, HMOs and PPOs administered by corporate health insurers, they can be deadly for both patients and providers. Insurers in Medicare Advantage use a...
More Americans struggle to afford their prescriptions
More Americans struggle to afford their medications, according to a new GoodRx survey. Millions of Americans today don’t take them as prescribed, eat less to cover the cost of their...
When to worry you have dementia and when not?
As we age, we are more likely to struggle to remember things. That doesn’t mean we have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. It might simply be that we’re forgetting things, reports...
How to extend your “joyspan”
As Americans get older, aging has become a very “in” topic. People are focused on long life spans and healthy lives. But, long and healthy lives are far better when they are joyful. And...