Since October 2012, the federal government has been using financial incentives to reward or...
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Observation care: What you need to know
For the last couple of decades, instead of admitting all Medicare patients who stay overnight as...
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: Their roles in our health care...
A 2015 article in Health Affairs by Drew Altman and Bill Frist speaks to Medicare and Medicaid at...
FDA backlog keeps generics from coming to market
In October 2015, there were as many as 3,000 generic drugs waiting to be approved by the Food and...
Honoring a wish to die in peace
It’s critically important that you share your end-of-life wishes with your doctors and the...
Paramedics help people avoid emergency rooms
A new initiative is underway around the country to use firefighter paramedics to keep people out of...
Competition can’t rein in health care costs
Like many policy debates, there are two principal schools of thought regarding how to rein in...
Can you budget for your health care?
If you have commercial health insurance, be it a Medicare Advantage plan, a state health exchange...
Social Security: It’s time to build on its success
Social Security is a model government program, financed by and supporting working families in the...
Visiting the doctor costs even more than you think
Many of us not yet on Medicare visit the doctor in fear of the sizeable bill we will owe, even if...