Drug Industry Spent Millions To Squelch Talk About High Drug Prices
Last year, the pharma industry鈥 biggest trade group raised millions to change the conversation about drug pricing.
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No Sweeteners Added To Tax Bill To Spread Use Of Health Savings Accounts
These accounts are exempt from taxes and linked to high-deductible health plans. Republicans tried last summer in their unsuccessful efforts to replace the health law to make the accounts more enticing for consumers, but they didn鈥檛 make those changes in the current tax bill.
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Not-So-Happy New Year: Alabama Set To Toss Kids Off Insurance Plan Starting Jan. 1
Funding for the joint federal-state Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program expired Oct. 1, and Congress has not yet agreed to a plan to continue the popular coverage.
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Canada鈥檚 Single-Payer Health System: What Is True? What Is False?
It鈥檚 a regular part of the politically charged debate over health care. But the lines sometimes blur between rhetoric and how Canada鈥檚 system actually works.
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Looking North: Can A Single-Payer Health System Work In The U.S.?
American single-payer advocates want to emulate Canada鈥檚 system. But many Canadian experts say the U.S. first needs to address some basic questions.
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Podcast: ‘What The Health?’ Farewell, Individual Mandate
In this episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times discuss health issues in the emerging tax bill, including the likely repeal of fines for those who fail to obtain health insurance. They also talk about the end of 鈥渙pen enrollment鈥 for 2018 individual health insurance coverage.
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Medicare Fails To Recover Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Lab Overcharges
Genetic testing firms declare bankruptcy and wipe out debt to the federal government.
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Good Deals For Some, Sticker Shock For Others As ACA Enrollment Winds Down
In Tennessee, an Obamacare consumer saw her rate go from $750 to just $5 a month. But a man in Maryland had to buy a less comprehensive plan to keep his costs under $1,000 a month. Income and geography determine prices for health insurance in the fifth year of Affordable Care Act coverage.
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Listen: Collins Plays Let鈥檚 Make A Deal On ACA Mandate Repeal
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) says she will vote for the GOP tax bill even though it repeals the ACA’s聽 mandate that everyone buy insurance. She’s gotten trade offs that she says will stabilize the market, but not everyone agrees they will offset the damage of losing the mandate.
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Telemedicine For Addiction Treatment? Picture Remains Fuzzy
One Indiana addiction specialist doesn’t shy away from telemedicine, but he still requires in-person visits to begin and maintain his patients’ Suboxone prescriptions.
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Good Friends Might Be Your Best Brain Booster As You Age
SuperAgers, men and women over age 80 with extraordinary memories, share a commitment to sustaining friendships.
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Fear Compromises The Health, Well-Being Of Immigrant Families, Report Finds
Interviews with immigrants from 15 countries and pediatricians in eight states reveal that fear of deportation is putting parents and children under heightened stress, impeding daily activities and jeopardizing long-term health.
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Consumers Who Froze Their Credit Reports Could Hit A Glitch Enrolling In Insurance
The federal marketplace generally uses credit reports to help verify identities, but that doesn鈥檛 work if consumers have put a security freeze on them 鈥 as some did after the Equifax breach this year. Workarounds for this issue exist, but they make the process more time-consuming.
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Why Do People Hate Obamacare, Anyway?
It鈥檚 not just ideology; a lot of people don鈥檛 understand what the law does or how it works.
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These Annual Checkups Help Seniors Not Only Survive But Thrive
Seniors are living longer and defying predictions of cognitive and functional decline. Wellness coaches guide them in setting goals for the year 鈥 whether physical, social, in颅tellectual or spiritual.
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Experts Tell Congress How To Cut Drug Prices. We Give You Some Odds.
Some of the nation鈥檚 most influential scientists recommend eight steps to lower drug prices. KHN takes the political temperature and tells you the chances of Congress acting on them.
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Sign-Up Deadline Is Friday, But Some People May Get Extra Time
Although in most states the insurance marketplace deadline is Friday, some consumers might be entitled to a special enrollment period if their 2017 plan is being discontinued or they are from states designated by the federal government as hurricane disaster areas.
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An Overlooked Epidemic: Older Americans Taking Too Many Unneeded Drugs
Researchers estimate that 25 percent of people ages 65 to 69 take at least five prescription drugs to treat chronic conditions. But some doctors are trying to teach others about 鈥渄eprescribing鈥 or systematically discontinuing medicines that are inappropriate, duplicative or unnecessary.
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In Era Of Increased Competition, Hospitals Fret Over Ratings
Hospitals are jockeying for patients and view the many different quality and safety ratings as a keen way to distinguish their services. But when those ratings nosedive, a hospital may retaliate.
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Sen. Collins鈥 Strategy To Stabilize Insurance Market Raises Doubts Among Analysts
Even if the Republican from Maine can get her party to go along, her suggestions to bolster the individual insurance market may be too little, too late.
