Amanda Morris writes for the New York Times on the difficulty people with long-term side effects of...
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Coronavirus: What do we know about the latest variant?
Andrew Joseph reports for StatNews on a new coronavirus variant, which some believe is even more...
Manchin’s means-testing proposal builds back worse
President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation would bring the United States into the...
Health care prices will continue rising until they are regulated
The public is fed a lot of misleading information about health care prices. Contrary to popular...
Congress must reduce out-of-pocket costs for people with Medicare
Earlier this month, “the Medicare team” inside the federal government sent an email inviting...
2021: Medicare drug price negotiation appears a long shot
It has been 32 years since Senator David Pryor, then Chair of the Senate Aging Committee made the...
Will health insurers stop Congress from reducing their Medicare...
When health insurers lobbied to be able to offer Medicare benefits, they claimed that they could...
Social Security benefits will increase nearly 6 percent in 2022
There’s welcome news for Social Security beneficiaries. In 2022, Social Security benefits will...
Daily use of baby aspirin can present greater risks than benefits
For quite some time now, older adults with certain health conditions have been told to take a daily...
Medicare Advantage: What are we paying extra for?
There’s a lot that we don’t know about Medicare Advantage, the part of Medicare that is...