It’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that his wife, Robin, is in the hands of reliable help. He spends nearly every hour of every day anxiously overseeing her care at their home on the Isle of Palms, a barrier island near Charleston, […]
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If you’re wealthy, you’ll be able to afford help in your home or care in an assisted-living facility or a nursing home. If you’re poor, you can turn to Medicaid for nursing homes or aides at home. But if you’re middle class, you’ll have a thorny decision to make: whether to buy long-term care insurance. […]
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For 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance allows her to stay in her Sacramento bungalow, near the friends and neighbors she loves. Her family pays $4,000 a month for that. […]
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Assisted-living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently, promising a cheerful alternative to the institutional feel of a nursing home. But their cost is so crushingly high that most Americans can’t afford them. These highly profitable facilities often charge $5,000 a month or […]
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Are you confused about what an assisted-living facility is, and how it differs from a nursing home? And what you can expect to pay? Here’s a guide to this type of housing for older people. What is assisted living? Assisted-living facilities occupy the middle ground of housing for people who can no longer live independently […]
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Margaret Newcomb, 69, a retired French teacher, is desperately trying to protect her retirement savings by caring for her 82-year-old husband, who has severe dementia, at home in Seattle. She used to fear his disease-induced paranoia, but now he’s so frail and confused that he wanders away with no idea of how to find his […]
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The white vans were the first thing people noticed. They began popping up around tribal reservations in the Southwest a few years ago, trolling through alleys and parking lots on a hunt for new business. They approached anyone who looked homeless or intoxicated with an alluring pitch: Get in, and we’ll give you shelter, sobriety […]
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At least two million low-income children have lost health insurance since the end of a federal policy that guaranteed coverage through Medicaid earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new analyses by researchers at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and KFF, a health policy research organization. The figures, which are likely a significant […]
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After stopping by a meet-and-greet in Ridgeland, a porch festival in Vicksburg, the Great Delta Bear Affair in Rolling Fork and an event on a baseball diamond in Yazoo City, Brandon Presley entered a packed room in McComb, launching into the message he believes can get a Democrat — namely, himself — elected governor of […]
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Four out of five customers on HealthCare.gov, the federal Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace, will be able to find coverage for $10 or less per month after subsidies, according to the government. Premiums vary, but the situation should be similar at many of the marketplaces run by 18 states and Washington, D.C., Ms. Cox said. […]
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There are no moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives. Oh, no doubt some members are privately appalled by the views of Mike Johnson, the new speaker. But what they think in the privacy of their own minds isn’t important. What matters is what they do — and every single one of them went along […]
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Federal prosecutors have accused 10 people of orchestrating a $20 million scheme to “get rich” by buying and selling black-market H.I.V. medications that in some cases had been purchased from low-income patients who risked their lives by selling it. Some of those accused in the case then used the proceeds to buy luxury cars, waterfront […]
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Congress is in shambles right now, but that hasn’t stopped Senator Cory Booker and Representative Ayanna Pressley from working on big changes to our health care system. The lawmakers exclusively shared with The Root that they plan to re-introduce the MOMMIES Act, a bill aimed at helping parents during one of the most dangerous times […]
Read More Congress is in shambles right now, but that hasn’t stopped Senator Cory Booker and Representative Ayanna Pressley from working on big changes to our health care system. The lawmakers exclusively shared with The Root that they plan to re-introduce the MOMMIES Act, a bill aimed at helping parents during one of the most dangerous times […]
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This year, the Black maternal health crisis took center stage at The Root Institute. We sat down with some of the leading experts in this field — including Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan, Dr. Uché Blackstock, and Oriaku Njoku to tackle one of the greatest threats to Black pregnant people, the state of our […]
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This year, the Black maternal health crisis took center stage at The Root Institute. We sat down with some of the leading experts in this field — including Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, CEO of CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, Dr. Uché Blackstock, Founding CEO of […]
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Nearly 500,000 people, many of them children, will keep Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage after state officials discovered major errors in their procedures for reviewing eligibility for the programs, federal officials said on Thursday. After a pandemic-era policy that guaranteed Medicaid coverage lapsed in April, states began checking to see whether tens of […]
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I’ve been writing about economics and politics for many years, and have learned to keep my temper. Politicians and policymakers often make decisions that are simply cruel; they also often make decisions that are stupid, damaging the national interest for no good reason. And all too often they make decisions that are both cruel and […]
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