With the coronavirus spreading quickly in the US and few federal efforts to date to contain it, the...
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Would the Trump administration’s plan to address insulin...
President Trump is touting a plan that he says would bring insulin costs down to $35 a month for...
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Trump confirms his plan to cut Medicare, Social Security
If you value your Medicare and Social Security benefits as much as the vast majority of Americans...
Biden’s policy agenda benefits older adults far less than...
Mark Weisbrodt writes for MarketWatch about the divide between Vice President Joe Biden and Senator...
Medicare for All would lead to a better performing labor market
A new paper by Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute makes the case that there is no reason...
Rural hospital closures mean poor health outcomes for rural...
In the last ten years, 124 rural hospitals have closed, and hundreds more are at risk of closing...
Medicare for All addresses racial injustice
Our health care system disproportionately hurts people of color. African Americans and Latinx, in...
How older adults can best protect themselves from the coronavirus
Everywhere you turn, it seems there’s news about the coronavirus (Covid-19). It is spreading...
Medicare for all would save 68,000 lives a year
New research by Yale Professor Alison P. Galvani et al., published in The Lancet, concludes that...