Getty Images Sen. Cory Booker Newly announced Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said Friday he wouldn’t do away with private insurance, even as he supports “Medicare for all,” wading into one of the hot-button issues of the 2020 presidential campaign. The New Jersey lawmaker in 2017 said he supported fellow Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for… Read More »
Nearly half of Medicare patients in long-term care hospitals experienced adverse or temporary harm events during their stays. That’s among the findings of the HHS Office of Inspector General, which conducted a two-stage medical record review using physician reviewers to identify adverse events and temporary harm events in the sampled records. One in five Medicare… Read More »
Editorial pages focus on these and other health care issues. Bloomberg: Genetic Engineering Can Make Humans Different, But Not Better For such flawed creatures, human beings are surprisingly hard to improve, at least through our genes. That’s one reason there’s so much outcry over the recent claim that researchers in China altered the genes of… Read More »
November 19, 2018 Posted By Categories Gary Schwitzer is the publisher and founder of HealthNewsReview.org. He tweets as @garyschwitzer. Good luck sorting through this stuff If you’re 65 or older, you may be in the middle of a Medicare decision-making mess right now because it’s open enrollment time. If you’re younger than 65, all I… Read More »
Cigna expects very attractive growth in the Medicare Advantage space, the company said during its earnings call on Thursday. The company reported income in the third quarter of $ 945 million, compared to $ 716 million during the same period in 2017. Income for the year is projected to grow by 31 to 33 percent,… Read More »