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One third of Social Security benefits spent on Medicare costs
An October 2017 Center for Retirement Research paper looks at the amount retirees spend on health...
New California law forces Pharma to justify price hikes
Kaiser Health News reports that last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a major drug...
Gene therapy can offer a cure, but at what price?
Pharmaceutical companies are coming up with cures for a range of diseases and disabilities...
President Trump blows up ACA adding $200 billion to deficit
President Trump has been saying for a long time that the ACA was going to implode. He was counting...
What can the US learn from Singapore’s health system?
Vox’s Ezra Klein explains how Singapore’s universal health care system works. Conservatives...
Widening health gap between wealthy and poor older adults
Several recent reports based on data since 2000 suggest that the health gap between wealthy and...
Smart tattoos with biosensitive ink
A story in the Harvard Gazette reports that researchers at Harvard and MIT have come up with a...
Senate Republicans propose to slash billions from Medicare
Congressional Republicans are moving full speed ahead to gut Medicare, with no interest in honoring...
Trump’s Budget Director prepared to gut Social Security
President Trump’s Budget Director is not standing behind President Trump’s repeated...