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Health and financial security
Surgery comes with life-threatening risks for older adults
Almost 14 percent of older adults die soon after receiving major surgery. They face...
Medical debt is a profit center for banks and private equity
Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani report for Kaiser Health News on how people’s medical debt...
New Medicare Advantage rules won’t stop the misleading...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that oversees Medicare, is...
Government proposes national health care provider directory
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to create a national health care...
Senate Republicans introduce bill to undo Democrats’...
Congressional Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will lower health care costs for...
2023 Medicare Advantage star ratings fall
Medicare Advantage plan star ratings have always been a farce, and you should not trust them. Most...
Hospital 340B program fails low-income communities
Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg report for The New York Times on how a big non-profit...
Private equity takes advantage of older adults in long-term care...
Christine Spolar reports for Kaiser Health News on the private equity takeover of long-term care in...
Medical debt more prevalent among Medicare Advantage enrollees...
Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein et al. write in JAMA Network about medical debt, which more...