When a home healthcare aide doesn’t show up, the consequences are immediate and can be dire.
- Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, UMass Boston
When that important link is broken, your health gets worse and the costs borne by the whole health care system for your treatment rise.
When people over 65 lose Medicaid coverage, they stop seeing their doctors for preventive care due to high costs. This in turn leads to worse health outcomes and higher health care costs.
Her proposal is aimed at easing the burden for family caregivers. She says that negotiating lower drug prices for Medicare could cover the cost of this expansion of benefits for older Americans.
Gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities can face significant economic challenges with age.
Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.
A study of medical costs and income losses found that those who can least afford to pay for health care and miss out on their paychecks rack up the biggest bills.
The findings suggest that many Black and Hispanic Americans don’t believe health care providers are listening to them.
New data shows the Great Recession hurt older, poorer Blacks and Hispanics the most. The pandemic downturn is likely to be even worse for them.
For millions, the ACA is making a big difference during the coronavirus crisis.
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