Tag: Medicare

Dollar rolled up with pills flowing out isolated on white background

President Biden, in his State of the Union speech, proposed giving Medicare the ability to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs.  I’m assuming the President means not only over-the-counter drugs covered under Part D but also medications administered in a doctor’s office covered under Part B.  Medicare sorely needs that ability.  While Medicare’s decision to…

Nurse getting shot_illustrated

One in four of the more than 900,000 Americans who have died from COVID resided in nursing homes. Yet two years into the pandemic, hesitancy about protective vaccines persists in the facilities in many states. In January, the Supreme Court upheld a regulation by the Biden administration that required all staff to be vaccinated in…