Medicare offers very good coverage of inpatient and outpatient medical services, but it comes with...
Health and financial security
Older adults owe $54 billion in medical debt
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an arm of the federal government, reports that almost...
How big insurers please Wall Street’s investors
The big for-profit insurers made more than $40 billion in profits during the first six months of...
Silver tsunami leaves a large cohort of older adults unable to...
Shannon Majnabadi reports for the Wall Street Journal on the rise of homelessness among baby...
Ohio and Virginia hospitals warn residents they could stop...
If you’re enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan—a health plan offered by a corporate health...
Forever chemicals take big toll on our health
Tens of thousands of miles from us, between Iceland and Norway, in the Faroe Islands, scientists...
Poll shows that weight-loss drugs are extremely popular among...
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll shows that about half the US adult population is...
Amazon Clinic now offers telehealth in all states but...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, Medicare has been covering a wide range of telehealth services, which...
Even with Medicare, you’ll spend a lot on health care
If you have Medicare, you should expect to spend a larger portion of your income on health care...
How former CMS head, Tom Scully, privatized and destroyed...
David Dayen reports on former Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) head, Tom Scully...