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Medicare
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KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries
July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps Read More >
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KFF Health News: The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
March 27, 2024: Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice. Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficul Read More >
Medicaid
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KFF Health News: Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits
November 21, 2023: Assisted living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently, promising a cheerful alternative to the institutional feel of a nursing home. But the Read More >
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Apple, Bose and Others Pump Up the Volume on Hearing Aid Options, Filling Void Left by FDA
August 31, 2021: Spurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow over-the-counter sales, with hopes it would boost competition and lower prices. Four years later, federal regulato Read More >
Social Security
State Issues
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KHN: Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic
September 17, 2021: Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases. Read More >