Katie Engelhart reports for California Sunday on what happened at Life Care Center of Kirkland, the...
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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: 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...
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 is making it harder to get long-term care
The financial and emotional toll of caring for older adults has always been enormous. The novel...
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...