It’s extraordinarily common for people to have stiff and achy backs. Rachel Fairbank reports for The New York Times that four in five Americans have lower back pain at some point in their...
Diane Archer
To improve your immune response after a vaccine, exercise!
Sometimes, it seems as if exercise is a cure-all. Walking is important to speed your recovery in the hospital, among other reasons, and aerobic exercise has many other benefits. Gretchen Reynolds...
Congressional Budget Office reports benefits of Medicare for all...
David Sirota writes for the Daily Poster on the latest report from the Congressional Budget Office revealing that ending corporate health insurance in favor of a publicly-administered health...
2022: Congress should scrap the Social Security cap
On February 23, millionaires in the US received a late Valentine. They stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2022 because they had hit the cap on payroll contributions, even though the...
2022: Medicare out-of-pocket costs
Many if not most Americans breathe a sigh of relief when they are eligible to enroll in Medicare, as they should. Medicare guarantees good affordable health care coverage that is not available to...
Should Medicare pay for a phone visit with your doctor?
In this age of Covid-19, telehealth and phone visits have been increasing significantly for everyone. Phone visits can last 20 minutes or more. Should Medicare cover a phone visit with your doctor...
Coronavirus: BA.2, the next variant
Brenda Goodman reports for CNN.com about the latest coronavirus variant, BA.2, which has already surfaced in multiple countries and 47 US states. Just at the point at which we are seeing a decline in...
To strengthen the Medicare Trust Fund, Congress cannot allow...
In a non-evidence based piece on payments to Medicare Advantage plans, which cost substantially more per enrollee than traditional Medicare, the Commonwealth Fund reported on the views of five...
Medicare hospital star-ratings are a farce
Every year, Medicare penalizes hospitals that underperform. This year, it penalized 764 hospitals because they had high rates of patient infections and complications that could have been avoided...
More than one in four older adults skip care because of cost
In two separate surveys, one of older adults and one of their caregivers, Fair Health looked at whether costs were impeding access to care for older adults and how much older adults know about their...