Former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care at his home in Plains Georgia last week. Hospice care is a form of palliative care for Medicare beneficiaries who are terminally ill with less than six months to live. People on hospice care agree to forgo all further treatments and are made as comfortable as possible until their deaths.
Author: Devon Herrick
Baby Boomers Reinvent the Commune for Retirement Assisted Living
As they age many seniors need help with activities of daily living. However, institutional care is expensive. A family member recently had to move into assisted living at a cost of $11,000 a month. Home care is also expensive, although that was no longer an option. Even for seniors who don’t yet need in-home care,…
Can Congress Solve the Health Care Workforce Shortage?
Senator Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont, is now chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. The HELP committee has more power than any other health committee in Congress. In a hearing that took place on Friday, February 17 the committee discussed the growing shortage of skilled workers in health care. Kaiser Health News reported on the hearing.
More Americans Delay Care Due to Cost
It’s no mystery that Americans are paying a bigger share of their medical bills out-of-pocket these days. Health plan deductibles have about doubled in the past two decades. My 2023 health plan deductible is nearly $9,000. Some family plans have combined deductibles of $15,000. High deductibles are causing more Americans to delay medical care according to The New York Times.