Bruce Japsen, Contributor

Health insurance companies are beginning to waive co-payments for visits to doctor’s offices for screening for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.

CVS Health, Walgreens, Walmart and Target are dedicating parking lots and other temporary areas outside of their drugstores across the country to test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19.

Walgreens will waive charges for home delivery of prescription medicines as the elderly and others at high risk for complications from the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 are urged to stay in their homes.

Lyft has signed a multi-year deal with Logisticare Solutions, which coordinates non-emergency medical transportation across the country.

Joe Biden’s win in the Michigan Democratic presidential primary by a large margin deals a blow to “Medicare for All,” an issue that figured prominently in a state with union workers with rich private health benefits.

CVS Health said it will buy the retail and specialty pharmacy business of Schnuck Markets, a large Midwestern grocer with 110 pharmacies.

Drugstore giant CVS Health said it will “waive charges for home delivery of prescription medications” as the elderly and others at high risk for complications from the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 are urged to stay in their homes.

Oklahoma is inching closer to expanding Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of residents in a plan the state’s governor is submitting to the federal government.

New investments in privatized Medicare and Joe Biden’s return as the front-runner for the Democratic party’s nomination for the Presidency is bad news for the single payer version of “Medicare for All.”

The nation’s health insurance companies agreed to waive out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic testing for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 in a sweeping statement from health plans backed by the Trump administration.