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• Kaiser Health News: Weighing Risks of a Major Surgery: 7 Questions Older Americans Should Ask Their Surgeon

  January 05, 2023: Larry McMahon, who turned 80 in December, is weighing whether to undergo a major surgery. Over the past five years, his back pain has intensified. Physical therapy, muscle relaxants, and injections aren’t offering relief. “ Read More >

• How Pfizer Won the Pandemic, Reaping Outsize Profit and Influence

  July 06, 2022: The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill Read More >

• KHN: ‘The Charges Seem Crazy’: Hospitals Impose a ‘Facility Fee’ — For a Video Visit

  December 17, 2021: When Arielle Harrison’s 9-year-old needed to see a pediatric specialist at Yale New Haven Health System in June, a telehealth visit seemed like a great option. Since her son wasn’t yet eligible to be vaccinated against cov Read More >

• KHN: ‘They Treat Me Like I’m Old and Stupid’: Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias

  October 20, 2021: Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers. There was the time se Read More >

• KHN: The Public Backs Medicare Rx Price Negotiation Even After Hearing Both Sides’ Views

  October 12, 2021: As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of their political party or age — support letting the federal government negotiate drug prices for Read More >

• Caring for an Aging Nation

  June 03, 2021: A Variety of Services Booming Number of Seniors The Cost of Long-Term Care Services The Physical – and Financial – Burden The $61 Billion Price Tag Health care for the nation’s seniors looms large as the baby-boom gen Read More >

• As Pandemic Eases, Many Seniors Have Lost Strength, May Need Rehabilitative Services

  May 21, 2021: Ronald Lindquist, 87, has been active all his life. So, he wasn’t prepared for what happened when he stopped going out during the coronavirus pandemic and spent most of his time, inactive, at home. “I found it hard to get u Read More >

• Stark Racial Disparities Persist in Vaccinations, State-Level CDC Data Shows

  May 20, 2021: Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and Native Americans show the highest rates overall, according to federal data obtained by KH Read More >

• KHN: As the Vulnerable Wait, Some Political Leaders’ Spouses Get Covid Vaccines

  January 08, 2021: By Laura Ungar With supplies of covid-19 vaccines scarce, a federal advisory panel recommends first putting shots into the arms of health care workers, who keep the nation’s medical system running, and long-term care residen Read More >

• New Report: Seniors At Risk — How Trump’s War on Health Care Has Made Coronavirus Crisis Worse for Older Americans

  May 28, 2020: President Trump and his Republican allies have spent years systematically sabotaging seniors’ health care, but now more than ever, their lives are on the line. Between undermining Medicaid enrollment to proposing steep Medic Read More >