Nearly 70% of seniors will need long-term care at some point in their lives. There are nearly 66,000 long-term care (LTC) facilities in the United States, with a total of about 1 million licensed beds. That will not be nearly enough as the Baby Boomer generation approaches the period in their lives of declining health. The average LTC resident is a woman, accounting for two-thirds of residents. Women stay an average of 3.7 years, compared to men who stay 2.2 years, on average. The reason women outnumber men two-to-one and spend more time in nursing homes is due to women outliving their husbands.
Author: Devon Herrick
Do We Really Need Primary Care Physicians? What Do They Do?
Americans are constantly being told they need a primary care physician. Supposedly the key to good health is having a close relationship with your family doctor. According to a research paper from Stanford and Harvard medical schools we live longer in areas with high concentrations of primary care physicians:
Employers Fight Back Against High-Cost Drugs
I’ve said it a million times: The U.S. health care system is largely predicated on gouging employee health plans. Medicare and Medicaid cover the overhead while the real money is from privately insured patients who are charged several times the fees that Medicare pays for the same service.
New Research Supports Masks in Winter
Mask mandates are unpopular. I don’t know anyone who enjoys wearing a mask. Surgeons wear them to avoid infecting surgery patients. Robbers wear them to avoid identification. Masks became political. Liberals who favor collective outcomes support mask mandates while conservatives who favor personal freedom do not. Today in stores I see a few people wearing masks, mostly just a few older people. It always amuses me when a car drives by and the driver — the sole occupant — is wearing a mask.