Republican lawmakers propose more conservative Obamacare fix

October 24, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two prominent Republican lawmakers from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday proposed short-term measures to stabilize Obamacare health insurance markets that would compete with bipartisan legislation under discussion in the Senate.
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Baltimore’s short on a lifesaving drug. Declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency can help

October 24, 2017 Donald Trump, drugs, News

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — If the paramedics had gotten there two minutes later, Darrin Dorsey would be dead. “Through the process you don’t even know you are about to die or you’re dead,” said Dorsey. “You only know what happened to you when you wake up and someone tells you.”

He recalled overdosing on fentanyl-laced heroin nearly two weeks ago. Dorsey’s near-death experience comes as Baltimore city officials have been trying to get naloxone, a...

Republicans take aim at Alexander-Murray with new plan to fund Obamacare payments

October 24, 2017October 24, 2017 News

Two top congressional Republicans unveiled a plan Tuesday that would fund key Obamacare payments, but would strike, for at least a few years, central components of the Affordable Care Act. ...

Iowa pulls request to opt out of Obamacare requirements

October 24, 2017 News, topNews

(Reuters) - Iowa on Monday withdrew a request to waive some Obamacare rules to help shore up its struggling healthcare insurance market, marking a setback in efforts by Republican-governed states to sidestep requirements of the Obama-era law.
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Iowa Withdraws Request to Leave Obamacare Market

October 23, 2017October 24, 2017 Health Insurance and Managed Care, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

The state wanted to offer lower premiums in exchange for higher deductibles in a far-reaching effort to circumvent the federal law’s requirements.

Iowa withdraws proposal to opt out of Affordable Care Act

October 23, 2017 News

Official expects 18,000 and 22,000 people to drop insurance under the planned rate increases in Iowa

Iowa withdraws proposal to opt out of Affordable Care Act

October 23, 2017 News

Official expects 18,000 and 22,000 people to drop insurance under the planned rate increases in Iowa

Want to fix US corporations? Put regular workers on company boards

October 23, 2017 News

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The U.S. abortion rate fell dramatically. Will Trump learn the right lessons?

October 23, 2017 Donald Trump, health care, News, reproductive-rights

A new study found that the U.S. abortion rate fell dramatically between 2008 and 2014, thanks in large part to more people using effective birth control. But researchers are worried that lawmakers won’t learn the right lessons from the study’s findings — and that recent progress in the area is already being reversed under the Trump administration.

One of the other central findings of the study, authored by Guttmacher Institute researchers Rachel Jones and Jenna Jer...

The Health 202: Obamacare may lose 1.1 million people because of advertising cuts

October 23, 2017 News

So says Obama's chief advertising officer for Healthcare.gov.