3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (381+ words) NEW YORK " Companies offering Obamacare health insurance plans next year are requesting payment rates representing a 14% median increase to premiums over 2026 rates, according to data from health policy research group KFF. The proposed rate for 2027 represents the second-highest increase since…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (461+ words) NEW YORK " More Americans are dropping out or being kicked off Obamacare health insurance for non-payment than in past years, according to data through April from half a dozen states that sell the plans themselves. The cancellations are posing a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (627+ words) It is the latest move by Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force that aims to crack down on health care scams. The U. S. government has for years tried to tackle fraudulent payments from Medicare to hospice and home health care…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (278+ words) More than a million fewer Americans have signed up for Obamacare plans for 2026, with enrollment dropping to about 23 million as monthly premiums for many soared due to the expiration of extra COVID-19 pandemic health insurance subsidies. Total premium costs for…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1243+ words) Mark and Kate Dwyer, whose cost of insurance is poised to jump to nearly a quarter of their annual gross income, at their home in Takilma, Ore. , Dec. 19, 2025. As enhanced subsidies expire, many Americans covered under the Affordable Care Act…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (623+ words) NEW YORK " Drugmakers plan to raise U. S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines "against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1603+ words) Shelley Oates-Wilding poses at Ala Moana Regional Park on Thursday in Honolulu. Oats-Wilding is a former Olympian and owner of nonprofit Ikaika Hawaii Watermans Academy, and is among thousands of Hawaii residents who have struggled with obtaining health insurance without…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1144+ words) Health care insurance and coverage is at the heart of the current U. S. government shutdown, which has resulted in furloughs and more recently " lapses in food assistance benefits. The disagreement remains over health insurance, more specifically whether enhanced federal subsidies for…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (526+ words) A Pfizer logo is shown at a research facility in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, U. S. , September 30, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake WASHINGTON " Pfizer and President Donald Trump on Tuesday said they had cut a deal in which the U. S. -based…...