No question that corporate health insurers are driving up health care spending. The higher their...
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Congressional Budget Office reports benefits of Medicare for all...
David Sirota writes for the Daily Poster on the latest report from the Congressional Budget Office...
2022: Congress should scrap the Social Security cap
On February 23, millionaires in the US received a late Valentine. They stopped paying into Social...
2022: Medicare out-of-pocket costs
Many if not most Americans breathe a sigh of relief when they are eligible to enroll in Medicare...
Should Medicare pay for a phone visit with your doctor?
In this age of Covid-19, telehealth and phone visits have been increasing significantly for...
Coronavirus: BA.2, the next variant
Brenda Goodman reports for CNN.com about the latest coronavirus variant, BA.2, which has already...
To strengthen the Medicare Trust Fund, Congress cannot allow...
In a non-evidence based piece on payments to Medicare Advantage plans, which cost substantially...
More than one in four older adults skip care because of cost
In two separate surveys, one of older adults and one of their caregivers, Fair Health looked at...
Prior authorization in Medicare Advantage harms patients...
MedPage Today reports on a poll finding that prior authorization requirements in managed care...
Biden administration will decide any day whether to reduce the...
David Dayen writes for The American Prospect on the question of whether the Biden administration...