A paper in Health Affairs by Marc A. Cohen et al. explains that people with Medicare and Medicaid...
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New Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period: January through...
Beginning in January 2019, there is a new Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MAOEP). You...
What’s a Medicare Special Needs Plan?
Medicare offers commercial health insurance coverage to help people with special needs...
Administration proposes cutting Medicare drug coverage
A few months ago, the Trump administration proposed cutting the prescription drugs Medicare covers...
People with serious health needs more likely to disenroll from...
A new study by David Meyers, Brown University School of Public Health, et al., of people enrolled...
Medicare Advantage plan “honor system” can breed...
The federal government today pays commercial health insurance companies nearly $200 billion a year...
Need home health care? Don’t count on Medicare
Of all the failings with the US health care system for older Americans and people with...
Eve’s story: Commercial health insurance, inhumane choices
Millions of hard-working Americans with common health conditions struggle every day to stay healthy...
Beware of steep premium increases on long-term care policies
As you age, it’s critical to plan for long-term care services and supports, including home or...
Have you signed up for MyMedicare?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offers a website, MyMedicare.gov, that...