Tara Parker-Pope writes for the New York Times about how she was able to help her family members receiving hospital inpatient care. As you likely know, it can be extremely difficult and stressful to...
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Medicare coverage of mental health care
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one in five Americans age 55 years or older have some kind of mental health concern. They often suffer from anxiety, severe cognitive impairment...
2022: Programs that lower your health care costs if you have...
Medicare only covers about half of a typical person’s health care costs, leaving people with average annual out-of-pocket costs of more than $6,100. So, even with Medicare, many people struggle to...
Providence Health sued for failing to provide charity care to...
No question that corporate health insurers are driving up health care spending. The higher their costs, the more money they make. Some hospitals are helping the insurers and hurting patients, with...
Got lower back pain? Exercise
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...
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...