Long term care is expensive. According to the American Council on Aging, the average cost per day for a shared nursing home room is $327. That works out to be about $10,000 a month for an annual cost of nearly $120,000. Few families can afford that, but consider this: A private nursing home room in Santa Rosa, California is $1,000 a day for a yearly cost of $365,000.
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Nurse Practitioners are Increasingly Treating Patients; Why Aren’t Pharmacists?
Advance practice nurses, such as nurse practitioners (NPs), are picking up some of the slack left by doctors of osteopathy (DOs) and medical doctors (MDs). NPs can do many of the same patient care tasks that physicians perform but with less training and at lower pay.
Single Payer is an Issue in California Governor’s Race
What are the differences between Single Payer, Medicare for All and Universal Coverage? Universal coverage is merely a system where everyone is covered. Obamacare was supposed to be universal coverage because it initially included an individual mandate. Medicare is a type of universal coverage for seniors. Medicare for All would expand eligibility down from age 65 to 0. Medicare for All would require the federal government to expand the program, with states playing a supporting role. It would not necessarily be the same program that exists today, except in name.
Where Do Consumers Really Get Health Information?
The Pew Charitable Trust says I’ve been wrong all these years. I’ve written for 25 years that Americans increasingly get their health information from the Internet. Furthermore, a few minutes spent surfing the Web for health information can educate patients far more than their physicians would ever have time to explain. In a new Pew survey of where people get their health information, the Internet trails health care providers.