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Where Nursing Homes Hide Their Profits By Merrill Goozner April 8, 2024   Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehab and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The fall broke his leg in two places. A single nurse’s

‘If I don’t talk no one’s going to know’: Stories of pain from East Palestine move coalition members to action By Steve Mellon March 24, 2024   Lauri Harmon stepped from the crowd gathered in a community hall at the East Palestine Country Club around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon and told her story to a

Medicare Advantage in 2023: Enrollment Update and Key Trends By Nancy Ochieng, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman August 09, 2023   Medicare Advantage enrollment has been on a steady climb for the past two decades following changes in policy designed to encourage a robust role for private plan options in

Liz Theoharis, This Can’t Be as “Good” as It Gets By Liz Theoharis March 10, 2024   It’s not complicated. This country, as TomDispatch regular and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Liz Theoharis makes clear today, is simply unprepared — unprepared, that is, to keep all too many Americans even reasonably healthy and well.

2024 World Happiness Report: Happiest countries revealed, US fails to crack top 20 By Julia Gomez March 20, 2024  

World Happiness Report Appendices & Data 2024  

Nearly half of health systems are considering dropping Medicare Advantage plans By Andrew Cass March 22, 2024   “Onerous” authorization requirements and high denial rates have health systems considering whether to drop Medicare Advantage plans, according to a report from the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights.   “HFMA Health System CFO Pain Points

Mortality in the United States, 2022 By Kenneth D. Kochanek, M.A., Sherry L. Murphy, B.S., Jiaquan Xu, M.D., and Elizabeth Arias, Ph.D. March 2024   Key findings Data from the National Vital Statistics System Life expectancy for the U.S. population in 2022 was 77.5 years, an increase of 1.1 years from 2021. The age-adjusted death