A new Public Citizen white paper details how the US would have been far better prepared for the...
Medicare
Expanding Medicare Advantage is a bad idea
In an op-ed for Health Affairs, Ken Terry and David Muehlestein explain why expanding the Medicare...
Congresswomen Jayapal and Dingell introduce Medicare for All Act
Today, Congresswomen Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell, along with 110 co-sponsors in the House of...
Don’t trust Medicare nursing home star ratings
Two and a half years ago, I warned people not to be misled by Medicare five-star nursing home...
People living in rural communities disenroll from Medicare...
Sungchul Park, David Meyers et al. report in Health Affairs that people living in rural communities...
Billing fraud pervasive in Medicare Advantage
In an effort to maximize government payments and minimize expenditures, attorneys David Engel, Gary...
MedPAC: Traditional Medicare consistently costs less than...
In a concise online memo, the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee, MedPAC, responded to health...
Coronavirus: How many Medicare Advantage members went without...
A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine looks at out-of-pocket costs for people...
To save money, invest in Medicare not Obamacare
Most experts agree that health care costs in the US are out of control. And, Congress needs to rein...
Medicare for all would rationalize the cost of care
In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, David Lazarus explains that, if we did not rely on...