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What to know about Medicare inpatient hospital care
Medicare Part A covers medically reasonable and necessary inpatient hospital care and discharge...
At-home cancer test is largely unhelpful
If you could take a test and have it determine whether you are at an elevated risk for developing...
Seven reasons commercial insurance cannot meet our health care...
As policymakers, pundits and the public consider the path to universal health care coverage in the...
Congress should fully fund Social Security
Joe Davidson reports for the Washington Post on Trump’s plan for Social Security. And...
No evidence oral beauty supplements improve skin
A meta-study of research on oral beauty supplements by nutrition scientists at the British...
What Medicare covers
In order to plan for your care as you get older, it is good to know what Medicare covers and what...
Center for American Progress proposes plan to improve and expand...
In a sign that the Clinton-Obama wing of the Democratic party has moved left, last week the Center...
Don’t sign a bank loan in the hospital
Shefali Luthra reports for Kaiser Health News on how unsuspecting patients are signing bank loans...
What’s a psychiatric advance directive?
We all need advance directives—living wills and health care proxies that enable us to identify a...