Ava Kofman writes for the New Yorker on the profiteers who have turned hospice care into a $22...
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Have arthritis? Beware of corticosteroid injections
New studies reveal that getting corticosteroid injections to relieve the pain of arthritis might...
Surgery comes with life-threatening risks for older adults
Almost 14 percent of older adults die soon after receiving major surgery. They face...
DiRx cuts out Rx middlemen to lower costs
Why should insurers be involved in people’s purchase of prescription drugs? Allison Bell...
Congress should lift debt ceiling, protect against Republican...
In an op-ed for The Hill, Nancy Altman, Chair of Social Security Works, speaks to the...
Medical debt is a profit center for banks and private equity
Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani report for Kaiser Health News on how people’s medical debt...
Prescription drug middlemen, PBMs, will always drive up drug...
There’s a move afoot in Congress to do something about prescription drug middlemen—Pharmacy...
CMS overpays Medicare Advantage plans and lets them keep the...
CMS last audited Medicare Advantage plans nine years ago, in 2013, and found millions of...
The benefits of eating cooked vegetables
When I was growing up, my mother always taught me that vegetables lost their nutrients when cooked...
Pharma pours money into telehealth
One upside of the Covid-19 pandemic is that it has become much easier to see a doctor, if...