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Eileen Cook April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 0 Comments

Covid Forces Cohousing Communities to Examine Shared Values and Relationships

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Tensions were running high at PDX Commons, a cohousing community for adults 55

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Eileen Cook April 28, 2021 0 Comments

COVID-19 antiviral pill could be ready by end of year, Pfizer CEO says

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) An oral drug to treat COVID-19 at the first sign of illness, made

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Emerging Health IssuesNursing Homes
Eileen Cook April 27, 2021 0 Comments

Big Investors Push Nursing Homes to Upgrade Care and Working Conditions

(By Harris Meyer for Kaiser Health News) Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid

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Eileen Cook April 27, 2021 0 Comments

Health Spending for 60-64 Year Olds Would Be Lower Under Medicare Than Under Large Employer Plans

(By Matthew Rae, Juliette Cubanski, and Anthony Damico for Kaiser Family Foundation published April 27, 2021) Medicare currently offers health

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Health Care FinancePart D/Prescription Drugs
Eileen Cook April 27, 2021 0 Comments

Drug costs continue to outpace inflation

A recent survey conducted by the IT company Scripta Insights found 66 percent of Americans think they pay too much

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Eileen Cook April 26, 2021 0 Comments

Temporary inability to retrieve a memory is called blocking

We all have said it “it’s on the tip of my tongue” when we cannot recall a certain word or

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Health Care RedesignLegislative UpdateMedicare - General
Eileen Cook April 26, 2021 0 Comments

Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act

Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01), along with Congressman David B. McKinley, P.E. (WV-01) introduced the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas

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Emerging Health Issues
Eileen Cook April 26, 2021 0 Comments

People Are Talking About A ‘Double Mutant’ Variant In India. What Does That Mean?

(By Michaeleen Doucleff for NPR) India is in the midst of a devastating second wave of COVID-19. For the past

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Emerging Health IssuesEmployer HealthcareHealth Care Finance
Eileen Cook April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 0 Comments

Time to Say Goodbye to Some Insurers’ Waivers for Covid Treatment Fees

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Just as other industries are rolling back some consumer-friendly changes made early in

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Health Care RedesignLegislative UpdatePart D/Prescription Drugs
Eileen Cook April 23, 2021 0 Comments

Neal, Pallone, and Scott re-introduce historic prescription drug price negotiation legislation

(Souce – www.waysandmeans.house.gov) WASHINGTON, DC—Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone

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