Hospital rates are out of control for people with private health insurance. Medicare, in sharp...
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Coronavirus: Labs can charge what they please for COVID-19 tests
Sarah Kliff reports for the New York Times that labs around the country are charging wildly varying...
Medicare for all would save $600 billion a year in...
A new paper by Steffie Woolhandler et al. in the Annals of Medicine exposes our health care...
Free local resources to help older adults
If you’re looking for free local resources to help older adults, your local Area Agency on Aging...
To save money on your care, consider using a free health clinic
Because health insurance no longer covers large portions of people’s health care costs...
Health care costs continue to rise faster than inflation
Americans want Congress to address out-of-control health care costs; these costs have been...
Traditional Medicare offers better home care benefits than...
If you have Medicaid or can afford supplemental coverage to fill gaps in traditional Medicare...
Do you need care? Why should your health insurer decide
In a Washington Post op-ed, William E. Bennett Jr., a gastroenterologist and associate professor of...
Private health insurers don’t let you budget for your care
Kaiser Health News reports that people with the wherewithal to shop around for affordable health...
Health care information confuses people
The Center for Retirement Research blog focuses on how health care information tends to confuse...