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By Julie Rovner The tax bill unveiled by Republicans in the House on Thursday would not, as had been rumored, eliminate the tax penalty for failure ...
Read More »House Tax Bill Dumps Deduction For Medical Expenses
5 Things To Know About Obamacare As Enrollment Opens
By Julie Rovner and Julie Appleby Open enrollment for people who buy their own health insurance starts Wednesday and ends Dec. 15 this year. That’s 45 days, six ...
Read More »U.S. Metropolitan Areas Increasingly Dominated by Single Insurance Companies
In an analysis of competition in health insurance markets across the United States, a study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that in ...
Read More »Social Media Is Harming The Minds Of Our Youth, Right? Maybe Not.
By Natalie Jacewicz It was 1:30 a.m., and Anna was trying to keep her mind off her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had ended a painful ...
Read More »In Oregon, End-of-Life Wishes Are Just A Click Away
By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Just four hours earlier, Sallie Cutler had been sharing Mother’s Day lunch with her mom, Alyce Cheatham. Then, that ...
Read More »Doctors to Congress: Stop Blaming Mental Illness and Get Real Gun Reform
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Democrats will want to discuss meaningful gun reform while Republicans will say that this is ...
Read More »Heart Device Failure: Medicare Spent $1.5B Over 10 Years To Replace Defective Implants
Medicare paid at least $1.5 billion over a decade to replace seven types of defective heart devices, a government watchdog says. The devices apparently failed ...
Read More »Just After Trump Blamed High Drug Prices On Campaign Cash, Drugmakers Gave More
“The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He ...
Read More »For suicidal veterans, loneliness is the deadliest enemy
About 20 veterans commit suicide every day. The primary enemy most veterans face after service is not war-related trauma but loneliness, according to a new ...
Read More »Republicans Fail, Again, To Repeal Obamacare
By Alan Lyndon Many of the nation’s medical associations were glad to see the end of the Graham-Cassidy health care legislation, which sought to repeal and ...
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