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• KFF Health News: Doubts Abound About a New Alzheimer’s Blood Test

  November 01, 2023: For the first time, people worried about their risk of Alzheimer’s disease can go online, order a blood test, and receive results in the privacy of their homes. This might seem appealing on the surface, but the development has Alzheimer’s rese...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Let’s Have an Honest Conversation About What to Expect as You Age

  October 26, 2023: How many of us have wanted a reliable, evidence-based guide to aging that explains how our bodies and minds change as we grow older and how to adapt to those differences? Creating a work of this kind is challenging. For one thing, aging gradually ...Read more >

• House Budget Committee Holds “Fiscal Commission” Hearing

  October 20, 2023: On Thursday, the House Budget Committee held a full committee hearing entitled "Sounding the Alarm: Examining the Need for a Fiscal Commission." Led by Republican Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX), the hearing primarily focused on why a fiscal debt co...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Medicare Enrollees Can Switch Coverage Now. Here’s What’s New and What to Consider.

  October 19, 2023: Consumers know it’s fall when stores start offering Halloween candy and flu shots — and airwaves and mailboxes are filled with advertisements for Medicare options. It’s annual open enrollment time again for the 65 million Americans covered...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump Misplaced Blame When He Said Drug Shortages Were Biden’s Fault

  October 12, 2023: “Under ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden, there has been a catastrophic increase in shortages of essential medicines.” -  Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in a July 24 campaign video In a recent campaign vi...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Biden Administration to Ban Medical Debt From Americans’ Credit Scores

  September 28, 2023: The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt on Thursday, outlining plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid medical bills from affecting patients’ credit scores. The regulations, if enacted...Read more >

• WSARA 2023 Convention

  September 25, 2023: The WA State Chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans (WSARA) held its 2023 Annual Convention in person on September 12. Laurie Weidner from the Retired Public Employees Council of WA and Rick Olson from Steelworkers Organization of Active Retir...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice

  September 21, 2023: Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira — about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, known as biosimilars, ...Read more >

• FDA Expected to Greenlight a New Covid Booster

  September 07, 2023: With the fast approaching fall and winter months — meaning more time spent indoors — the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are prepared to soon approve an updated Covid booster shot. The FDA could gre...Read more >

• Pleasant Surprise: Medicare’s Per Person Spending Has Stopped Skyrocketing

  September 07, 2023: Spending per Medicare beneficiary has nearly leveled off over more than a decade — but for unknown reasons. The lower per-person cost could have to do with the Affordable Care Act, fewer heart attacks, or the recent lack of new blockbuster treatmen...Read more >