It would appear the Medicare Advantage programs, Medicare HMOs if you will, actually provide better care. Health plan industry trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans has released a study concluding that Medicare Advantage plans may be doing a better job of controlling costs and preventing harm to patients. AHIP looked...
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Cutting Medicare to nursing homes is poor healthcare policy
Here is a guest blog from McKnight’s that again shows how nursing homes are being ignored in the health care reform debate. My opinion has been clear and consistent. Aging in place is great. BUT…this country is ranked 37th in the World Health Organization and the latest study on obesity...
Self – Responsibility: How to Reduce Healthcare Costs for the Elderly
This is a guest blog from Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of nurse practitioner schools . Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson83@yahoo.com One of the things I “preach” about often is the need for self-responsibility. Part of the reason we have a...
Look to your leaders, not healthcare reform, to change long-term care
Read the guest blog in McKnight’s Long Term Care News and Assisted Living.
Medicare Cuts to Nursing Homes
Nearly half of voters view Medicare cuts to nursing homes as the least acceptable way to pay for healthcare reform, according to a recently released poll conducted by The American Health Care Association. The poll also found that 66% of voters would be less likely to re-elect an official who...
Healthcare and the Tailor Shop
If you want to understand why healthcare is such dire straits, Atul Gawande’s essay in The New Yorker is a great place to start. My mother slaved in a tailor shop most of her career. She got paid for how many things she stitched in a given day. Guess what,...
Higher Risk of Dementia for Middle Age Smokers, Diabetics and those Hypertensive
Part of the health crisis is the fact that we do not take care of ourselves. Our choices today WILL affect our health and life expectancy later. More proof, in the August 19 Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, it is reported that those who smoke, or suffer from hypertension...
Putting Health Care Reform in Perspective
With permission, I am reprinting Larry Minnix’s great essay on his mother’s experience with the health care system. Contrasting it against the “death panel” rhetoric floating around, he actually shows how current proposals would actually pay for services that have up until now been provided at times for free from...
Congressional Call In Day
Tomorrow is another AAHSA congressional call in day. Call to make sure long term care is part of healthcare reform. Find out more here.
Call Congress for Long Term Care Reform
AAHSA is hosting a Congressional Call-In Day tomorrow, May 13, 2009, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern in an effort to get long-term services and supports included in upcoming health-care reform legislation. They believe health reform without long-term care services is not a comprehensive solution. I agree. Please call...