Archive: Health/Long-Term Care

Business briefcase, stethoscope and financial market charts

But expenditures remain high – primarily due to high health care costs, not program generosity. This year I, with my sidekick Michael Wicklein, took a more-careful-than-usual look at the Trustees Report for the Medicare program. After all, Medicare – like Social Security – relies on payroll tax revenues, so it’s useful to understand the competing…

Cropped shot of a female nurse hold her senior patient's hand

How to alleviate ravages of the disease without bankrupting individuals or Medicare program? The Food and Drug Administration recently granted fast-track approval to a new Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow the rate of cognitive decline for individuals in the early stages of the disease.  The drug, which will be sold under the brand name Leqembi,…