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State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup costs
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those…
Primary care in crisis amid physician shortage, underfunding
Declining to invest in primary care has caused Americans’ average life expectancy to stagnate or decline, a new report shows. The 2024 scorecard report also shows that the failure to put more funding into primary care has led to health…
Opinion | ‘Site-neutral’ payments for chemotherapy could save Medicare billions
As if to prove that every rule has an exception, the usually dysfunctional Republican-majority House of Representatives has at least one sensible piece of bipartisan legislation on its record: In December it passed a health-care measure…
Should insurance companies in New York be in the business of providing home
Some state lawmakers want to take health insurance companies out of the business of providing home health care. They say it’s a failed experiment that’s costing the state too much money that could…
Fixing our broken health care system
The American health care system is killing us. I wish I meant that metaphorically, but sadly, it’s true. Every year, costs keep skyrocketing while patient outcomes get worse and find new lows. Over the past two years,…
Veterans to receive expanded IVF options under new VA policy
Secretary McDonough said "raising a family is a wonderful thing."March 12, 2024, 8:11 PM ET• 5 min readThe department of Veterans Affairs will soon provide in vitro fertilization to eligible veterans who are single or in same-sex…
For-profits own over 70% of America’s nursing homes, and health advocates are
Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a…
How Virginia can lower health care costs without sacrificing access to critical
Lowering health care costs is overwhelmingly supported by Virginians, and for the significant number of residents living with chronic and rare diseases, this issue is particularly acute. Accordingly,…
Let’s listen to what Trump is saying about how he’d govern
Donald Trump is a one-trick pony who gives the same performance at all of his campaign rallies. He talks about the “rigged” 2020 election, blasts “radical left Democrats,” RINOS, the mainstream media, prosecutors who…
Car Insurance Rates Skyrocket 17.8%–Why Is This Happening?
By ALLEN MCQUISTONJemez Insurance Agency Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
I came across this article in Forbes magazine and thought I would pass it along. The article was originally published in August of 2023 and updated in December.…