As coronavirus cases multiply in the United States, one concern Americans have is what they can expect to pay if they seek treatment. Speaking from ...
Read More »School Superintendent Arrested for Using Her Health Insurance to Pay for Student’s Care
In an extreme example of caring for students, a school superintendent in Indiana used her own medical insurance to pay for a student’s treatment and ...
Read More »AMA: Repealing Obamacare Would ‘Wreak Havoc on American Health Care’
Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision is a stunning display of judicial activism. Judicial power does not extend to settling policy disputes or exercising general supervision over ...
Read More »Trump Competes With Obamacare: Loosens Restrictions On Short-Term Health Plans
Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under final rules released Wednesday by the Trump administration. ...
Read More »House Tax Bill Dumps Deduction For Medical Expenses
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 »Adults Insured Through Obamacare Linked to Fewer Sudden Cardiac Arrests
The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest, an often deadly loss of heart function, declined significantly among previously uninsured adults who acquired health insurance through the ...
Read More »Pennsylvania Insurer’s Collapse Could Shock the Health Insurance Market
By Chad Terhune Among all the reasons for rising health insurance premiums, this one might be the most obscure: A long-term care insurer in Pennsylvania ...
Read More »AMA Urges Congress to Reject Efforts to ‘Repeal and Replace’ Obamacare
The American Medical Association (AMA) today outlined its opposition to current efforts in the U.S. Senate aimed at replacing or repealing the Affordable Care Act, ...
Read More »Current Health Care Debate Finds Veterans Supporting Obamacare
By Stephanie O’Neill Air Force veteran Billy Ramos, from Simi Valley, Calif., is 53 and gets health insurance for himself and for his family from Medicaid — ...
Read More »Before Obamacare, patients with preexisting conditions were ‘out of luck’
By Elana Gordon, WHYY For most of his life, Carl Goulden had near-perfect health. He and his wife, Wanda, say that changed 10 years ago. Carl ...
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