Medical 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticlePresident Trump’s 2021 proposed budget would most hurt vulnerable older adults
Monique Morrissey writes for the EPI blog about President Trump’s proposed 2021 budget. Morrissey explains that this White House budget would hurt vulnerable older adults, even though it claims to...
View ArticleEvidence suggests privatized Medicaid long-term care may put people at...
The US health insurance system has become increasingly privatized. One big trend is in the Medicaid program. More than two dozen states have contracted with for-profit health insurance companies to...
View ArticlePeople with Medicare and Medicaid in Special Needs Plans at extra risk
A paper in Health Affairs by Marc A. Cohen et al. explains that people with Medicare and Medicaid, “dual-eligibles,” enrolled in commercial Medicare Special Needs Plans, a type of Medicare Advantage...
View ArticleWhat’s a Medicare Special Needs Plan?
Medicare offers commercial health insurance coverage to help people with special needs through Medicare Special Needs Plans. The commercial health plans are a type of Medicare Advantage Plan, which are...
View ArticlePeople with serious health needs more likely to disenroll from Medicare...
A new study of people enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that people with high health care needs disenroll from these commercial Medicare health plans into...
View ArticlePACE 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 ArticleMedicaid coverage of home and community-based care
If you would like to remain in your home as long as possible–sometimes called “aging in place“–Medicare will be of only limited help. Medicare pays for only a small amount of home care in situations...
View ArticleMedicare changing nursing home incentives to deter poor care
Kaiser Health News reports on a ghastly phenomenon that appears all too common for people with Medicare in some nursing homes. To increase their revenues, nursing homes create conditions that lead...
View ArticleCARE Act assists family caregivers
About seven in ten older adults need long-term care at some point. In many cases, it is a family member who provides that care to help them remain in their homes as long as possible and stay out of...
View ArticleBefore choosing a nursing home, check out Nursing Home Inspect
If you are looking into nursing home options, Pro Publica has an online tool worth exploring, Nursing Home Inspect. The tool relies on federal government inspection reports to spotlight nursing homes...
View ArticleProtect your eyesight: Free and low-cost vision care
Your ability to see well is precious. But, your vision is likely to deteriorate as you age. Some people develop eye diseases that have no early warning signs, including age-related macular...
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