Jake Johnson writes for Common Dreams about a new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project that focuses on private equity’s “disastrous” hold on home health care and...
Diane Archer
High deductible health plans are a barrier to care for working...
Corporate health insurers can use a range of tactics to make it seem that they are offering you more at less cost. One such tactic relies on high deductibles to keep premiums down so that the health...
What’s a durable power of attorney?
A durable power of attorney is a legal document that allows you to name someone to help with your financial affairs whenever you would like and if you become unable to handle them yourself. The...
MedPAC blasts Medicare Advantage
Every year, most members of Congress send a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services filled with misinformation, drafted by the trade association for the health insurance companies...
Medical debt on the rise
New research from the Peterson Center on Health Care and the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Americans are now holding at least $195 billion in medical debt. Nine in ten of them have health...
Medicare hospice benefit has become a luxury
For many years, Medicare has covered palliative or non-curative care at the end of life through its hospice benefit. The benefit is intended to allow people, with six months or less to live to die...
Read this before leaving the hospital with new prescriptions
As many of you likely know, something as simple as filling prescriptions before leaving the hospital can be challenging. Read this to help ensure you do a better job than I. And, please send in your...
Biden administration bent on privatizing traditional Medicare
There appears to be little light any more between corporate health care and government health care or even between government health care-speak and corporate health care-speak. In the latest...
How prior authorization requirements in Medicare Advantage could...
If you’re in a Medicare Advantage plan and have needed any costly care, you likely know about prior authorization requirements that save corporate health insurers money but can threaten...
UnitedHealth could force nearly 3,000 patients to forgo care or...
Because the US Congress leaves it to corporate health insurers to negotiate health care provider rates and agreements, our health care costs are far higher than they should be. In addition, access to...