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?
A report on rising drug prices has set off alarms among retirement planners.
As if we needed another reminder that our safety net is threadbare, AMR Corp., the American Airlines parent company, says it will shut down pensions covering 130,000 employees and retirees as part of a reorganization in bankruptcy court. A government backstop is in place to keep most pensioners whole—but not all of them, and the [...]
The nation’s health care bill rose by less than 4% in both 2009 and 2010. In 50 years, health care spending has never increased at such a slow pace. Could this mean that, after a half century of eye-popping inflation in health care expenditures, efforts to rein in costs are actually working?
The health care industry has been one of the bright spots in a dark economy in the last few years. But job growth in the industry now looks as if it’s starting to slow.
Medicare turned 46 last week, but instead of celebrating its major accomplishment — keeping millions of older Americans healthy — it finds itself under siege. The program appears to have squeaked through unscathed in the debt deal, but changes are likely to surface when the new bipartisan committee tasked with finding an additional $1.5 trillion [...]
After 23 years of covering — and giving advice about — Medicare, a veteran journalist wades into the system herself. Part five of a 5-part series.
After 23 years of covering — and giving advice about — Medicare, a veteran journalist wades into the system herself. Part four of a 5-part series.
Medigap and Medicare Advantage sales brochures were stacking up in my mailbox the year I turned 65. I knew I had to find the best way to fill in my Medicare coverage gaps so I tackled learning about Medigap plans first.
This year I’m turning 65 and signing up for Medicare, so brochures and “lead cards” for Medicare Advantage plans and Medigap policies began flooding my mailbox. I finally sat down and started sifting through it all.
After 23 years of covering — and giving advice about — Medicare, a veteran journalist wades into the system herself. Part 1 of a 5-part series.
