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Healthcare: Employment Bonanza and Cost Crisis

In many ways, the healthcare industry has been a great friend to the U.S. economy. Its plentiful jobs helped lift the country out of the Great Recession and, partly due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it now employs 1 in 9 Americans—up from 1 in 12 in 2000. As President Donald Trump seeks to […]

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Trump Signs Healthcare Bill Vets

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill April 19 to temporarily extend a program that lets some veterans seek medical care in the private sector, part of an effort by the president to deliver on a campaign promise. The extension will give Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin time to develop a more comprehensive plan […]

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Health Insurers Respond to Threat

President Donald Trump is trying to bring the Democrats to their knees with respect to the Affordable Care Act through devious means. He has recently issued threats to health insurers, suggesting that his government would not reimburse the companies for their coverage of low-income individuals. Meanwhile, a representative body of the health insurers has sent […]

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Foes of Assisted-Suicide Bill Rally in Nevada

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Frustrated after Democratic lawmakers cancelled debate for the second time in a week, patients and doctors rallied April 12 at the Nevada Legislature against a proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide. University of Nevada, Reno medical professor Kirk Bronander and Republican Sen. Joseph Hardy of Boulder City were among the physicians who […]

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Md. Black Lawmakers Seek Session on Pot

BALTIMORE — Black lawmakers in Maryland have called for a special session of the state legislature, after a bill designed to create diversity ownership in the state’s developing medical marijuana industry failed to pass in the regular session’s chaotic closing minutes this week. Del. Cheryl Glenn, a Baltimore Democrat who chairs the Legislative Black Caucus […]

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President Signs Bill Targeting Planned Parenthood

President Trump on Thursday signed a bill to nix an Obama-era rule that blocked states from defunding healthcare providers for political reasons. The bill, which Democrats say is really an effort to defund Planned Parenthood, passed the Senate last month after Vice President Pence had to cast a tie-breaking vote. Trump signed the measure behind […]

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Administration Issues Final ACA Rules

The Trump administration on Thursday issued a final rule that will shorten the Obamacare enrollment period and give insurers more of what they say they need in the individual insurance market, likely making it harder for some consumers to purchase insurance, healthcare experts said. It could also raise out-of-pocket medical expenses, the experts said, because […]

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Trump May Halt Pay to Force Democrats’ Hand

U.S. President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he might consider withholding billions of dollars of Obamacare payments to health insurers to force Democrats back to the negotiating table on healthcare. Insurers and major medical groups have warned that not funding the payments, called cost-sharing reduction subsidies, which help cover out-of-pocket […]

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HSAs Will be Big in Trump Era

Although the American Health Care Act’s defeat has led to uncertainty on the specifics of healthcare reform, there is relative consensus in one area: the use of health savings accounts. House Republican leaders and the White House have already restarted their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Republicans know any transformation will need to […]

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Universal Care Faction Seizes the Day

It was a cold, misty, gray, early spring day in Albany, New York – the kind of bone-chilling, turn-up-the-heat weather that encourages residents to flee to Florida. But 500 New Yorkers were still out on the sidewalk lobbying for healthcare reform that has long seemed like a pipe dream: government-provided universal health insurance. “I wanna […]

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Obamacare Costs Still Problematic

Far from the national debate about health insurance swirling in the halls of government and corporate boardrooms, Bob Isaacson works in his office in Holdrege, Nebraska, to help people get health plans they can afford. And it’s getting harder every year. Seven years since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, forever tied to […]

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FDA Nominee: I Would Challenge Trump on Vaccines

Washington – Scott Gottlieb, a Westport doctor, on Wednesday calmly defused tough questions from Democrats during the confirmation hearing on his nomination to head the Food and Drug Administration, promising to safeguard the agency’s rigorous review of drugs and medical devices. He also said he would keep his independence from the White House and oppose […]

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