From 2021 to 2022, Medicare spending increased by 5.9 percent, from $689 billion in 2021 to $944 billion in 2022, reaching 21 percent of total National Health Expenditures. Increased Medicare spending ...
There is a growing mental health crisis among older adults: 20–30 percent of older adults older than the age of 65 report symptoms of anxiety or depression, and older adults exhibit the highest rate ...
With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
A new Center for American Progress analysis finds that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent; savings from curbing MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare ...
Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...
Medicare’s hospitalization trust fund is on the fast track to insolvency. That has both seniors and future retirees worried. Because our leaders in Washington have been poor stewards of the record ...
Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors' medical assistant, who asks how she's doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing ...