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medicare
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Cost of long-term care merits coverage, discussion
With the baby boomers aging into Medicare and heading into years when physical decline and disability gradually become more common,…
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Low interest rates affect seniors’ ability to pay medical expenses
A lot is written about people who don’t save enough for retirement. But what about older adults who saved diligently,…
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Webcast explores aging adults’ contributions, widening disparities, creating ‘synthetic families’
You don’t often hear about how much older adults contribute to society. That’s a shame. It allows the aging of…
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Panelists: Watch state activities for stories about seniors’ health services
What lies ahead for Medicare now that election results are in? Two words sum up the short-term outlook: cost cutting.…
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Health care watchdog agency provides ideas for stories in coming year
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has unveiled its FY 2013 OIG Work Plan , a blueprint for the…
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N.C. series explains high cost of cancer drugs
As part of an ongoing series on the cost of health care in The Charlotte Observer and The News &…
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Columnist finds evidence in question of controlling health care costs
Recently in this blog I suggested that reporters examine insurance companies’ record of controlling health care costs for older adults.…
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Rau explains using data to write about hospital readmissions
Many health policy experts believe that hospital readmissions are symptomatic of the broad dysfunction of the health care system in…
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Find evidence that insurers can – or can’t – rein in health care costs
Here’s a question that reporters on the aging beat should look into as the debate over Medicare rages on: Where’s…
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Explaining the Medicare fight in a nutshell
Just about every major news outlet has done a “fact check” on the Medicare wars that erupted after Mitt Romney…