The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that Medicare will cover Covid-19 at-home rapid tests beginning this Spring. Tests will be available from pharmacies at no cost. This...
Diane Archer
Older adults rise up for a better America
The New York Times reports that a burgeoning movement of older adults, including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, are rising up to fight for a better America. Led by Bill McKibben, Third Act’s...
Costs now keep one in three Americans from getting care
A new Gallup and West Health study finds that almost one in three Americans are skipping care because of the cost. That’s a huge jump up in the number of Americans skipping care because of...
Eating different snacks could lower your cholesterol
MedPage Today reports on a new study, reported in the Journal of Nutrition, revealing that people who ate certain snacks instead of other snacks, including junk food, saw their cholesterol levels...
Round up: Emergency care
As you know, health care costs can be sky high. Regardless of what you pay, your health outcomes depend heavily upon the quality of care you receive. Since emergencies are by definition unexpected...
Hospitals forced to pay nurses a lot more
This is what you call hubris. Healthcare Dive reports that the American Hospital Association is complaining to the White House that nurses are demanding higher wages. And, because there’s a...
More hospitalized Medicare patients will qualify for nursing...
For many years now, Medicare has not always covered nursing home care for patients post-hospitalization. Hospitals that treated patients as outpatient–even when the patients stayed...
The disadvantages of a decentralized health care system
Ross Douthat writes for The New York Times about his shift “left” on health insurance. After suffering from a painful undiagnosed condition, Douthat, a libertarian, realized that what might look...
Roundup: Your doctors and your health
Some doctors are a lot better than other doctors. As you get older, it’s especially important that you and your loved ones have doctors who listen to you, who do not undertreat or overtreat...
It’s time to expand our National Health Service Corps
Jonathan Michels writes for Jacobin on our homegrown army of doctors in the US National Health Service Corps. These primary care doctors have been practicing in underserved communities throughout...