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Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less

Medicare Advantage was supposed to find efficiencies, but instead is costing taxpayers an extra $83 billion a year. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images by Grace...

Harris proposes that Medicare cover more in-home health care, filling a large gap for older Americans and their caregivers

Getty Images Stock Photo by Jane Tavares, UMass Boston and Marc Cohen, UMass Boston Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a proposal to allow Medicare to expand...

Health care under Harris versus Trump: A public health historian sizes up their records

The presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024, did not add much context to what the two candidates would do on health care beyond their...

Medicare’s Extra Help program helps more people save more money on prescription costs

Due to a new law, more people qualify for more prescription drug savings with Medicare’s Extra Help program, so it could pay to apply...

Biden administration secures historic victory in Medicare drug price negotiations, projected to save billions

Government negotiations with pharmaceutical companies over drug pricing should lower medical costs for many people ages 65 and older. Marko Geber/DigitalVision via Getty Images In a...

Price of popular diabetes drugs denies low-income folks access to treatment

Barriers to getting Ozempic and similar drugs are leaving many people who are suffer from diabetes and obesity without the medicine. (AP Photo/David J....

US long-term care costs are sky-high, but Washington state’s new way to help pay for them could be nixed

Adobe Stock Photo by Marc Cohen, UMass Boston If you needed long-term care, could you afford it? For many Americans, especially those with a middle-class income and...

Caring for older Americans’ teeth and gums is essential, but Medicare generally doesn’t cover that cost

Taking good care of your teeth and gums is essential at any age. Adobe Stock Photo by Frank Scannapieco, University at Buffalo and Ira Lamster,...

For-profit nursing homes are cutting corners on safety and draining resources with financial shenanigans

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on April 18, 2023, that directed the secretary of health and human services to consider actions that...

Sad circumstances of Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s death – far too typical

Retired U. S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) by Dr. Barbara Reynolds (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Once  in a private moment  after I had finished producing her weekly...

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