Toni KAMINS
Writer and editor
Freelance writer and editor specializing in senior citizen issues and health; publisher of the Medicare Reporter on Substack.
themedicarereporter.com
The Medicare Reporter
The Medicare Reporter provides independent insight, analysis, and user advice about America's best-known, but little understood public health-insurance program for those over 65.
The Washington Post
Opinion: Stop Taxing Unemployment Benefits
Taxing unemployment benefits is punitive, counterproductive, makes no sense, and should stop.
Next Avenue
Ways to Vet a Caregiver or Caregiving Agency
As with everything else, hiring a caregiver comes with its own set of caveats. But you can find reliable care if you do your homework, proceed as you would with any other major decision, ask the right questions and learn how to evaluate the answers.
citylimits.org
The Distressing Math of NYC’s Future Senior-Housing Need
New York City is sitting on the leading edge of a major storm that’s about to make landfall: How and where is the city going to house its burgeoning senior citizen population? If left unresolved, its impact will have dire and far-reaching consequences that will encompass many sectors of our economy and social structure.
citylimits.org
Fewer Hospitals, More Worries: What Medical Mergers Mean for Healthcare in NYC | City Limits
Fewer Hospitals, More Worries: What Medical Merg...
citylimits.org
Why are so Many New Yorkers Still Under-Banked? | City Limits
Why are so Many New Yorkers Still Under-Banked? ...
Medscape
Post-Breast Cancer Guidelines Are Crystal Clear, but Are Providers Listening? to load title
Miscommunication may be the only cause of ambiguity
Medscape
Early Colorectal Cancer: Missing the Clues?
Any disease can present outside the usual patient cohort, but CRC in younger adults is no longer unusual...
Medscape
Sun and Skin: From Burns to Melanoma, What Every Clinician Needs to Know and Share
Luckily, the skin is one organ that clinicians across all specialties are seeing, and this offers a secondary opportunity for prevention and early detection.
kveller
As an American, I Didn’t Think I’d be Afraid To Be Jewish in France. But I Am.
I’m an American Jew from New York and I now live in Paris.
Tablet
The Shoah’s Other Lost Children
The Vatican announces it will finally open its World War II archives. What secrets will be forthcoming? Tablet looks at the case of Jewish children hidden with Catholic families during the Holocaust.
Lilith
In the Shadow of Notre Dame
Notre Dame is a magnificent example of Gothic architecture, it is also a symbol of French Roman Catholicism which has had a very fraught history with the Jewish people.
Tablet
Brooklyn’s Hasidic Community Reacts to a City-Declared Health Emergency
Interviews with community and religious leaders about the measles outbreak in New York City and Rockland county, NY, and analysis of events.
blogs.timesofisrael.com
Call Jew hatred by its real name
The term anti-Semitism; is a misnomer. It assumes the existence of something called Semitism. Its real name is Jew hatred and calling it anything else masks its true nature.
The Jewish Daily Forward
A Dangerous Liaison
The Trump administration’s odd relationship with American Jews was on full display last week in Jerusalem. There, a multitude of end-times obsessed evangelical politicians gathered at the new U.S. Embassy to fantasize about Kingdom Come. U.S. Ambassador David Friedman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who, having wantonly chosen politics over their obligations to the founding principles of both the United States and Israel, reveled in the spectacle attended them.
But nearly lost in the di...