Heart health can mean the difference between a good quality of life as we age and one with serious...
Your Coverage Options
High-deductible health plans mean high risk
In a recent opinion piece for Stat news, Ashish Jha, M.D., describes his struggle ensuring the...
ACA reduces medical divorces
Among the Affordable Care Act’s many benefits, it’s common knowledge that it has...
Beware of out-of-network ER bills
A new study by Zack Cooper and Fiona Scott Morton in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals...
Which health plan should you choose if you’re ill?
Which health plan should you choose if you’re ill? Given all the talk about competition in...
Your Medicare costs in 2017
Most people don’t realize that Medicare only covers about half of a typical person’s...
Older people’s annual drug costs average $26,000
A new AARP Public Policy Institute report reveals that drug prices have been increasing...
Check your medical bills before paying them
All it takes is a visit to the doctor and a few tests or pretty much any visit to the hospital and...
Insurers limiting drug coverage to keep people with costly...
When was the last time you heard of a health insurer advertising its first class cancer care, its...
What’s the Medicare premium in 2017?
The monthly Medicare Part B premium in 2017 technically is $134.00, up 10 percent from this year...