Need to sign up for health insurance? Keep an eye on the calendar

May 27, 2020 News

For millions of newly jobless Americans who have lost their health insurance, the clock is ticking to get coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
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White House announces plan to cap insulin costs at $35 a month for senior Medicare enrollees

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 News

Most senior Medicare recipients will be able to get prescription plans that cap copay costs for insulin, allowing them access to various types of insulins at no more than a $35 copay for a month's supply, the White House announced during a call with reporters on Tuesday.
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The Health 202: Coronavirus proves U.S. needs Medicare-for-all, its advocates say

May 26, 2020 News

“The crisis has highlighted the human toll of our broken health-care system,” says Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Key Obamacare opponent emerges as Trump’s top warrior in mail-in voting battle

May 23, 2020 News

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, long at the forefront of Republican efforts to undo Obama-era policies through the courts, is emerging as a key warrior in President Donald Trump's growing fight against expanding mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Appeals court likely to rule Obamacare unconstitutional

May 21, 2020 News

The Affordable Care Act, and the health coverage of millions of Americans, could face a major threat to its future Wednesday morning. A federal appeals court in New Orleans appears ready to rule that a core provision of Obamacare is unconstitutional. Paula Reid reports.

Depending on where they live, coronavirus can still cost Americans thousands of dollars

May 20, 2020 health insurance, healthcare, News

Relatively early in America’s adventures in coronavirus, on March 18, the US government approved legislation that made coronavirus testing, as well as the visit to administer it, free for all Americans, whether or not they have health care insurance (although if the visit doesn’t result in a coronavirus test, it is not covered).
It was an essential policy: The fear of medical bills acts as a deterrent for many Americans, pushing them to delay, or avoid, tests or medical tr...

To Figure Out Who’s A Citizen, Trump Administration Is Using These Records

May 20, 2020 News

After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question onto 2020 census forms, the Trump administration is turning to IRS tax forms, Medicaid data and Interior Department law enforcement records.
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Democrats Bet Health Care Will Deliver 2020 Victories

May 19, 2020 News

Exclusive: U.S. probes PerkinElmer’s role in massive Medicare fraud – sources

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 News, topNews

Medical diagnostic firm PerkinElmer Inc faces a federal investigation into its role in an alleged Medicare fraud involving tens of thousands of unnecessary genetic cancer tests, according to three sources with knowledge of the probe and documents reviewed by Reuters.
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US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 News, US news

Devices associated with protesters travelled up to hundreds of miles after rallies where few precautions were taken
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Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with C ovid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.

The data, provided to the Guardian by the progressive campaign group the Committee to Protect Medicare, raises the prospect that the protests will play a role in spreading the coronavirus epidemic to areas which have, so far, experienced relatively few infections.

The anonymized location data was captured from opt-in cellphone apps, and data scientists at the firm VoteMap used it to determine the movements of devices present at protests in late April and early May in five states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and Florida.
Related: Protesters descend on Michigan capitol but rain washes away demonstration
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