June 2020 – medicarereport.org

End-Of-Life Planning Is A ‘Lifetime Gift’ To Your Loved Ones

(By Kavitha Cardoza for NPR) Talking about death makes most of us uncomfortable, so we don’t plan for it. That’s a

Knowing when to enroll in Medicare is important because missing your chance to enroll or enrolling at the wrong time

( By Lauren Weber and Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News) A Miami entrepreneur who led a rural hospital

(Source – www.medicare.gov/blog) If you have Medicare and you’re facing challenges paying for health care, you may qualify for Medicare

(By Ina Jaffe for NPR) Two members of the Senate are calling for an investigation of five states that ordered

(Source- blogs.va.gov/VAntage) Congress has provided over $300 million through the CARES Act to help VA address the problems that homeless

(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) Pfizer filed a lawsuit June 26 accusing HHS of blocking it from providing financial aid

(By Matthew Herper for STAT) Since remdesivir became the first medicine shown to have an impact on Covid-19, doctors, politicians,

(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) Several of the pharmaceutical industry’s top drugmakers are forming a $1 billion antibiotic innovation

(By LuLu Garcia-Navarro for NPR) As the number of new coronavirus cases spikes in several states across the U.S., governors, county