3+ hour, 30+ min ago  (421+ words) March 12 (UPI) -- People in the United States are killing budgets, skipping meals, stretching prescriptions and driving less as they struggle to keep up with healthcare expenses, a survey shows. Gallup found in a survey that more than one-third of Americans…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (218+ words) Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Enrollments in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for individuals are down by 1.2 million after 23 million bought coverage during the open enrollment period that ended on Jan. 15. The number of enrollees is down from the 24.2 million who signed…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (268+ words) Jan. 21 (UPI) -- UnitedHealth Group officials on Wednesday said the health insurer will return the profits earned on policies obtained via the Affordable Care Act marketplace aka Obamacare. UnitedHealth Group is the largest health insurer in the United States, but its…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (401+ words) Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The end of temporary subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance policies is raising rates and causing many to lower their coverage or forgo it as open enrollment nears its end. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services run…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (353+ words) Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Insurance premiums are set to rise exponentially for Americans who have bought their health care policies through an Affordable Care Act exchange because Congress failed to extend subsidies for them. Without the extension of the subsidies, people who…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1373+ words) Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The deadline is approaching for Congress to extend the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits and failing to do so is expected to cost about 4 million people their coverage over the next decade. U.S. Congress has until Dec....

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (395+ words) Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open. Some of the premium increases can be attributed to an…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (465+ words) The cost of employer-provided health insurance has surged for a third straight year, with the annual cost of a family plan approaching $27,000, a new survey from the nonprofit KFF indicates. That's the average one-year premium cost shared by one family…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (503+ words) Sept. 30 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has secured a deal with drugmaker Pfizer to lower its prescription prices. The White House also announced a new direct-to-consumer website to sell medications at discounted rates, calling it TrumpRX, the…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (638+ words) More people appear to die in emergency rooms after hospitals have been bought by private equity firms, a new study says. About 13% more deaths occur among Medicare patients in the emergency rooms of hospitals after their acquisition by private equity,…...