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People with Medicare still spend an average of $5,500 on health...
Medicare is a blessing for people over 65 and people with disabilities. But, it only covers about...
Lowering drug prices will not affect innovation
Peter Bach, a physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, explains in Bloomberg News that...
Medicare for All lowers taxes for most Americans
Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economics professors at UC Berkeley, report in The Guardian that...
What you should know about ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug
Casey Schwartz reports for the New York Times that many Americans, including many older adults, are...
Ten ways Medicare Advantage plans differ from traditional...
There is a lot of confusion surrounding Medicare Advantage plans–commercial health insurance...
Thousands of Americans with medical debt arrested each year
We know that millions of insured Americans live with hundreds or thousands of dollars of medical...
How does Canada’s Medicare health care system work?
At this year’s Single Payer Strategy conference held last weekend in Portland, I had the...
Social Security benefits will rise 1.6 percent in 2020
As a result of inflation, people on fixed incomes watch their incomes decline in value over time...
Corporate health insurers profit by condoning fraud
Here’s another reason to support Medicare for All, a single public health insurance system...