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Are you on a high-deductible health plan? What do you wish you knew?
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (86+ words) People with ACA health insurance just saw prices surge and many switched to plans with high deductibles and health savings accounts. If that's you, what do you wish you knew about how your plan works? The sudden spike in costs…...
How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million people
1+ week, 2+ day ago (675+ words) After a routine trip to her mailbox, Dawn Daly-Mack almost threw away an important letter that she thought was junk mail. "I opened it up and it said, 'Your medical bill has been paid,'" says Daly-Mack, 60, who lives in Gaston,…...
White House announces new round of drug-price deals
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (361+ words) President Trump said the administration has reached agreements with nine more drugmakers to bring their U.S. drug prices more in line with what other wealthy countries pay. Fourteen companies in total have now reached what the administration calls most-favored-nation pricing deals....
These families' health care costs will balloon if Congress doesn't act on the ACA
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1800+ words) The government shutdown has ended without resolving a fight over health insurance. Congress failed to extend enhanced tax credits that have helped millions of Americans on Affordable Care Act plans cover their plan costs since 2021. Senate Republicans have promised a…...
Why the ACA needs young people — and the looming 'death spiral' for health insurance
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (913+ words) Chloe Chalakani has a lot at stake in the health care fight at the heart of the government shutdown. Chalakani runs a small culinary business with her partner in the coastal town of Thomaston, Maine. As temperatures drop and the…...
For private flood insurance companies, the government shutdown is good for business
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (588+ words) MIAMI " Among those feeling the pain of the government shutdown are people in coastal areas and other locations where they need flood insurance. The government-backed National Flood Insurance Program stopped writing new policies on Oct. 1 and can't resume until it's…...
AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (445+ words) AstraZeneca became the second drugmaker to enter a deal with the Trump administration to offer lower prices to Medicaid and to offer some of its drugs at a discount through TrumpRx, a government website to facilitate sales directly to consumers....
States are cutting Medicaid provider payments long before Trump cuts hit
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1213+ words) Every day for nearly 18 years, Alessandra Fabrello has been a medical caregiver for her son, on top of being his mom. "It is almost impossible to explain what it takes to keep a child alive who should be dead," said…...
Time is short for an ACA premium fix in the shutdown fight, says GOP insurance leader
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (683+ words) On Capitol Hill right now, there's a partisan argument over if and when lawmakers need to act to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. That's where 24 million people " who don't have insurance through their jobs or a public…...
What's behind the health care fight that led to the government shutdown
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (631+ words) A fight over health policy drove the current federal government shutdown. At issue is the cost of premiums for health care plans people buy on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, marketplaces. Enhanced tax credits for these premiums expire at…...