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Administration Overhauls Medicare Website
The Trump administration is rolling out new online tools to help seniors compare the differences between traditional Medicare plans and those offered by private health insurance. The latest installment to the Medicare.gov website, called eMedicare, has a new feature allowing beneficiaries to chat online with government staffers to ask questions as they are looking at [âŚ]
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Cheaper Insurance Policies Have Big Gaps
If youâre looking for cheaper health insurance, a whole host of new options will hit the market starting Tuesday. But buyer beware! If you get sick, the new plans â known as short-term, limited duration insurance â may not pay for the medical care you need. Read More
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Judgeâs Ruling Means Missouri Clinic Canât Resume Abortions
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. â A federal judge denied Planned Parenthoodâs request for a mid-Missouri clinic to be temporarily exempted from certain abortion regulations, ensuring that the Columbia clinic will not be able to resume abortions. U.S. Western District Court Judge Brian Wimes wrote in his ruling late Wednesday that even if he did lift the [âŚ]
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AP: Drug Prices Going Up Despite Trump Promise
NEW YORK â President Donald Trump made reducing drug prices a key promise during his election campaign, repeatedly accusing drug makers of âgetting away with murder.â At the end of May, he promised that drug companies would be announcing âmassiveâ voluntary drug price cuts within two weeks. That hasnât happened, and an Associated Press analysis [âŚ]
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Trump to Divert $200 from Health Programs to Detention
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified Congress on Wednesday that it plans to transfer up to $186 million from its programs to help cover the costs of housing a growing number of immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Read More
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Lawmakers Reject Plan to Put Drug Prices in Ads
A federal appropriations bill will not include a bipartisan provision that would have required drug manufacturers to be more transparent with costs to consumers after it was blocked by House Republicans.1 Jointly sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the provision would have required list prices included in direct-to-consumer television advertising. [âŚ]
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Democrats Plan to Turn Obamacare Issue Against G.O.P.
The voter anger over healthcare that once propelled Republicans to the majority in the House and Senate is now buoying Democratsâ hopes for the midterm elections. When Democrats passed and rolled out Obamacare, voters shouted down lawmakers at town halls and rallied in huge demonstrations to protest changes in coverage, rising premiums, and the loss [âŚ]
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Former U.N. Chief Calls U.S. Healthcare System âMorally Wrongâ
The former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United Statesâ healthcare system as politically and morally wrong, and urged American leaders to enact publicly financed healthcare as a âhuman rightâ. Ban made the comments in an exclusive interview with the Guardian in New York, as part of his work with The Elders, [âŚ]
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Advocates Rip Proposal to Penalize Immigrants Using Benefits
The Trump administrationâs proposal to expand public charge designations to Medicaid and Medicare Part D subsidies and other benefits will jeopardize the healthcare access of millions of legal residents, critics charge. The 447-page proposed rule, which was unveiled Saturday by the Department of Homeland Security, would create âa strong disincentive to seek care,â said Bruce [âŚ]
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17 Health Care Systems Launch Project for Underserved
Seventeen health systems, encompassing 280 hospitalsâ5 percent of the hospitals in the countryâhave come together to figure out financially sustainable solutions to the problem of how to improve health care for underserved people and their families. Read More
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HIV Research Yields Dividends Across Medical Fields
Since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States 37 years ago, the National Institutes of Health has invested more than $69 billion in the understanding, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Beyond the development of life-saving medications and innovative prevention modalities, such research has led to numerous advances outside the HIV field, [âŚ]
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Food Safety Scares Up in 2018
Matt Arteaga, 51, is one of about 500 people who got sick this summer in an outbreak linked to McDonaldâs salads. The cause was a parasite, cyclospora. Arteaga fell ill on a Thursday afternoon in June. He was in his office in Danville, Ill., when he says the symptoms came on quickly. âThe chills, and [âŚ]
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