Medicare Spending was 27% More for People who Disenrolled from Medicare Advantage than Similar People in Traditional Medicare

This analysis looks at traditional Medicare spending among people who choose to disenroll from Medicare Advantage and obtain coverage under traditional Medicare during the annual Medicare open enrollment period. It compares their traditional Medicare spending (Parts A and B) in the year following disenrollment to similar people who were continuously covered by traditional Medicare, using…

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A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health

A new National Academies committee study report, A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health, was co-chaired by Alina Salganicoff, senior vice president and director of women’s health policy. The report finds that while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made important contributions that have led to…More

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A Healthcare System’s Moral Bankruptcy Goes Viral

Brian Thompson’s murder was chilling, but the social media response of this tragedy was equally shocking, if eye-opening. It shows a massive collapse of public trust in our healthcare system, a system so broken that it bankrupts families, denies life-saving care, and treats death as an acceptable cost of doing business. The post A Healthcare…

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