Jay Caspian Kang writes about Covid-19 and the nursing home tragedy in the US in an opinion piece for the New York Times. Nearly 200,000 nursing home and long-term care facility residents have died...
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People with long Covid struggle to get disability benefits
Amanda Morris writes for the New York Times on the difficulty people with long-term side effects of Covid are facing getting disability benefits. People with “long Covid” can have serious...
Medicare Open Enrollment: You could save big money on drugs
It’s Medicare open enrollment season, and if you’re smart you’ll take an hour or two to review your options. While it is not possible to choose a Medicare Advantage plan that is right for...
Will an antibiotic treat your urinary tract infection?
Pathogens of all types are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Consequently, simple infections can be hard to treat. Natalie Ma, cofounder of Felix Biotechnology, writes for Stat on the...
Coronavirus: What do we know about the latest variant?
Andrew Joseph reports for StatNews on a new coronavirus variant, which some believe is even more easily transmissible than the Delta variant. It is called AY.4.2 or Delta Plus. What do we know about...
Is your hospital providing good care?
All hospitals are different in their own ways. Several factors go into a determination of whether a hospital is safe and delivers good health outcomes. Jordan Rau reports for Kaiser Health News that...
Health care prices will continue rising until they are regulated
The public is fed a lot of misleading information about health care prices. Contrary to popular myth, health care “competition” does not bring down prices. In fact, health care prices...
Congress must reduce out-of-pocket costs for people with Medicare
Earlier this month, “the Medicare team” inside the federal government sent an email inviting millions of us to mark our calendars for the Oct. 15 start of a 54-day period to enroll in Medicare...
2021: Medicare drug price negotiation appears a long shot
It has been 32 years since Senator David Pryor, then Chair of the Senate Aging Committee made the case for government negotiation of drug prices because Americans were facing a “crisis of...
Will health insurers stop Congress from reducing their Medicare...
When health insurers lobbied to be able to offer Medicare benefits, they claimed that they could deliver more at a lower cost. But, years later they continue to cost significantly more per enrollee...