Global aging threatens to lay waste to your retirement plan. Here's why you need to stay healthy and write your congressman.
Here are six low-tech healthcare services readily available to seniors and which will vastly improve their quality of life, according to the Hartford Foundation. Did you know that Medicare pays the full cost of one wellness checkup each year?
The buying and selling of human organs is generally frowned upon. But should this be the case? There’s an argument to be made that if kidney sales were legal, more lives could be saved and overall health care costs would decline.
As the traditional pension disappears, the 401(k) plan is evolving into something that one day might actually be just as good. That’s saying a lot. The certainty of monthly income for life, which traditional pensions promise, is a high bar. Meanwhile, 401(k) plans have taken their licks.
Nobody would be surprised to hear that spending more on healthcare will result in new jobs. But a new program announced by the Obama administration last week seeks to create new healthcare jobs and at the same time reduce healthcare costs. Is such a trick possible?
Many of the health care law’s critical details still need to be spelled out, and one of the most important open questions — What “essential services” must all insurance plans cover? — will be answered before the year is up.
Remember when your parents told you to finish the food on your plate because “people in China were starving?” Well, the Chinese might well be saying that about America these days.
Of all the annoying things about your credit score, the one that turns people’s crank the most is how medical debt can tarnish it. That’s understandable. Nobody plans to get sick. Now, Congress is looking to do something about it.
The Innovator’s Prescription author Jason Hwang talks about how to bring down costs, improve efficiency, and otherwise fix health care in America.
If people are delaying those routine checkups—or skipping them altogether—this seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
When asked if they would stop canceling policies in situations in which there clearly was no fraud, three health care executives refused point blank. The moment seemed eerily reminiscent of three out-of-touch automaker executives who, while begging for a bailout, refused to sell their corporate jets.
