Tag: Medicaid
The recent rise in Americans’ death rates is a crisis for the lowest-earning men. They are dying about 15 years younger than the highest-earners due to everything from obesity to opioids. Women with the lowest earnings are living 10 years less. But healthcare policy is doing what it’s supposed to in the states that expanded…
One of retirees’ biggest fears is that they will have to go into a nursing home. This fear isn’t just psychological – it’s also financial. Roughly half of older Americans will find themselves in a nursing home at some point, according to a 2015 estimate. These stays usually last months, but sometimes years, and t…
