PACE helps older adults stay in their community
The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a home and community-based program designed to keep older adults who are at risk for nursing home placement living in their community. PACE...
View ArticleCan you protect nursing home residents in a profit-driven system?
A story in The Guardian about corporate entities that buy up nursing homes, with the goal of squeezing as much profit out of them as possible and no regard for their residents, speaks volumes about the...
View ArticleGovernment-administered long-term care insurance is long overdue
Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, more than 46,000 people have died in nursing homes. The private health care market is failing, and government-administered long-term care insurance,...
View ArticleCoronavirus: More home and community-based services needed
For all the tragedy that Covid-19 has wreaked on this nation, there are a few silver linings. COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the failings of nursing homes and the need for more home and...
View ArticleDental fraud: How to protect yourself
Daryl Austin writes for Kaiser Health News about dental fraud. Yes, dentists sometimes identify problems with your teeth in order to be able to perform services that are in fact unnecessary. It’s a way...
View Article2021: Programs that lower your health care costs if you have Medicare
Medicare only covers about half of a typical person’s health care costs. So, even with Medicare, many people struggle to afford premiums, deductibles and other out-of-pockets health care costs. Some...
View ArticleCoronavirus: The nursing home tragedy
Jay Caspian Kang writes about Covid-19 and the nursing home tragedy in the US in an opinion piece for the New York Times. Nearly 200,000 nursing home and long-term care facility residents have died of...
View ArticleHow a for-profit program that should provide all-inclusive care neglects its...
Medicare’s Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly or PACE has been a godsend for a small group of vulnerable patients around the country, allowing them to age in place, with medical and social...
View Article2022: Programs that lower your health care costs if you have Medicare
Medicare only covers about half of a typical person’s health care costs, leaving people with average annual out-of-pocket costs of more than $6,100. So, even with Medicare, many people struggle to...
View ArticleMedical debt rising for people who pay through their credit cards
Millions of people max out their credit cards, and an increasing number max out because of a costly medical condition. Patients want to pay their medical bills, or they must pay their bills in order to...
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