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2025 will be a banner year for retirees. In January, a hard $2,000 cap on how much they spend out of their own pockets for medications kicks in. Retirees should welcome the new, much lower spending limit, which will protect them from extraordinary costs, especially if they develop an illness that requires an expensive medication…
The pandemic has dramatized the grim consequences of Black and Latino Americans having less access to healthcare than whites: disproportionately high death rates from COVID-19. But there has been some progress toward racial equity in an unlikely place: Medicare Advantage plans sold by insurance companies. Enrollment in the plans has increased unabated for years, and…
