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How can we rely on paid caregivers?
Many older adults who want to age in their communities must rely on paid caregivers to provide...
Paying less for hospital care through reference pricing
Only an an all-payer system with uniform health care rates, will keep us from wildly varying and...
Social Security benefits barely rising in 2017
Social Security just announced the cost-of-living adjustment, COLA, for Social Security, and the...
A medical device may make heart surgery even riskier
Every year, more than half a million Americans have heart bypass surgery to get blood flowing to...
Traditional Medicare is changing
The New York Times reports that Medicare has finalized a new rule under which traditional Medicare...
Health tech–A primer
What is the Internet of Things exactly or the Quantified Self? And, is it really important for you...
Four ways Congress could weaken Medicare
Much like Social Security, Americans across the political spectrum prize Medicare. Medicare...
State insurance commissioners favor insurance industry
A new report from the Center on Public Integrity, Drinks, Dinners, Junkets and Jobs, lays out the...
Federal drug discount program likely hurts cancer patients
Almost half the hospitals in the U.S. that treat Medicare patients, participate in the federal...