Older adults and people with disabilities have the choice of private health plans that offer...
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Telehealth is likely here to stay
It seems as if telehealth is working quite well for a large segment of the US population during the...
Is it valuable to have health plan choice?
Is choice of health plans what any American wants, asks Austin Frakt in a New York Times piece. Or...
Can you protect nursing home residents in a profit-driven system?
A story in The Guardian about corporate entities that buy up nursing homes, with the goal of...
Hospital rates out of control with private health insurance
Hospital rates are out of control for people with private health insurance. Medicare, in sharp...
Coronavirus and Congress: How to help older workers
The novel coronavirus has hit Americans hard. And, it has hit older workers especially hard. Not...
Coronavirus: Older adults take full advantage of Medicare...
Medicare began covering a broad array of telehealth services during this coronavirus pandemic. And...
Coronavirus: Should nursing homes be for-profit?
Matthew Goldstein et al. reports for The New York Times that most US nursing homes were losing...
Coronavirus: The importance of health care proxies
Sadly, the novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the lives of older adults. Many more older adults...
2020: What you might not know about Medicare Advantage plans
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a new report on Medicare Advantage plans–private health...