As you know, the annual Medicare enrollment period begins in about two weeks, 15 October. Both the physical handbook and the Medicare website are well designed, useful and easy to understand. It’s one of the things the federal government is good at and you should take full advantage.
Continue ReadingAdult children who help aging parents should check out the Washington Post article At End of Life, Medicare Beneficiaries Spend Thousands Out-of-Pocket. Reporter Sarah Kliff explains that a recent study, Out of Pocket Spending in the Last Five Years o…
Continue ReadingDid you watch the Democratic Convention last week? I did. There were some damned good speakers leading up to the main event but most viewers didn’t get to see them, even on MSNBC and CNN which favored uninformed pundit chatter…
Continue ReadingBill Keller, an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, painstakingly summed up his baby boom birth cohort as “The Entitled Generation.” This snippy criticism is typical of jeremiads written by and for Boomers to portray unseemly conclusions about the nation’s largest generation. So writes the columnist from on high, “We are an entitled bunch.” Keller’s views fall way short of balance. For example, while warning of and alleging future entitlement fund shortfalls to be imposed by the generation, he…
Continue ReadingWhen your parents go to the hospital and need to stay over night or longer, be sure the medical staff admits them as official patients and not for observation (which means that technically they are not admitted at all). People hospitalized for observ…
Continue ReadingGay and Gray is a monthly column at Time Goes By written by Jan Adams (bio) in which she thinks out loud for us on issues of aging lesbians and gay men. Jan also writes on many topics at her…
Continue ReadingWhat if you could be admitted to the hospital—in your own bedroom? That’s the idea of a health care model called Hospital at Home, which is aimed at elderly patients with diseases such as congestive heart failure, emphysema, urinary tract infections, or pneumonia. According to a new study published in the journal Health Affairs, people […]
Continue ReadingApproximately twenty percent of hospitalized Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month, costing the program billions of dollars each year. The American Hospital Association calls that “bounceback”. To help reverse that trend, Medicare has been using what they … Continue reading →
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