The percentage of Americans without health insurance in 2017 remained the same as during the last year of the Obama administration, but 14 states including Texas, Florida, Vermont, Minnesota, and Oregon saw the rate of uninsured rise.
The Affordable Care Act has been used as a bitterly partisan cudgel since the day it became law, but that doesn’t mean conservative pockets of the country aren’t eager to sign up for coverage. According to an analysis of recently purchased health plans by zip code from Benefitter, several deep red counties within deep red […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In a recent study, a little more than half (55 percent) of Millennials say they would go see a doctor right away if they discovered a lump on their neck, versus 73 percent of non-Millennials. What’s even more surprising is that Millennials consider maintaining a work/life balance to be more important to their overall health […]
Betty Heiman, the co-founder and CEO of Transparent Healthcare is calculating that enough people who have lost their insurance because of the changes under the Affordable Care Act and feel that they can’t afford the new plans will opt for membership in a group that offers access to primary care physicians, specialists and procedures at […]
The second enrollment season of Obamacare is just around the corner, and while the first year was given a thorough political challenge, year two is in many ways even more important. Kaiser Health News, in a collaboration piece with the Washington Post, notes that in the second year, outreach efforts to the most elusive uninsured […]
A significant portion of previously uninsured Californians gained medical coverage through the nation’s health care law – about six in 10 during the state’s first open enrollment, according to a survey released Wednesday. All told, about 3.4 million people who didn’t have health insurance before sign-ups began last fall are now covered, according to the […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Via @CPearsonAvalere, a state-by-state look at how much premiums would shoot up if Halbig stands: pic.twitter.com/xURNRN0wS7 — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 22, 2014 Today’s rulings about the legality of health insurance subsidies may turn out to be a passing moment of glee or horror, depending on your view of the Affordable Care Act. Now that […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Angela Allen’s struggle to ease her neck pain has been a huge pain in the neck. Her regular spine doctor does not accept the new insurance she bought through the federal health marketplace. Allen, who has two slipped disks in her neck vertebrae, said the closest specialist she found who would see […]
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department is implementing a new city law allowing its staff to enroll inmates into health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi believes that making sure people have health coverage when they’re released will help prevent them from committing another crime and coming back. One inmate – Sophia – […]
When Massachusetts passed its landmark health coverage law under Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, no one claimed the state would get to zero, as in 0 percent of residents who are uninsured. But numbers out this week suggest Massachusetts is very close. Between December 2013 and March of this year, when the federal government was […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Fiona O’Connell is familiar with the working person’s health care nightmare — the one where you get too sick to work, and then you lose your job, and then you have no insurance to pay for the treatment you need. O’Connell lived that nightmare, and she’s still bitter and angry. But now she can talk […]
Some might consider Kelly Troyer of South Carolina lucky. She isn’t one of them. Thanks to the generosity of her church and family members, she receives some treatment for the depression and post-traumatic stress disorder she suffers as a result ...