About 24 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act plans with about a week to go in open enrollment. But President-elect Trump has talked about possibly repealing the 14-year-old ACA.
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Nevada home health care workers prepare to lobby for another wage hike
After Nevada gave home care workers a huge raise, from about $11 to $16 an hour, turnover in the industry fell sharply. Now, caregivers are preparing to lobby for another wage hike.
What the new medical debt-credit report rule could mean for patients, health industry
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s move could lead to providers seeking high payments before treatment, an economist warns. A health scholar says it could protect patients’ financial futures.
Potential fraud could have earned insurance companies billions off of Medicare Advantage
NPR’s Eric Deggans talks to Wall Street Journal reporter Christopher Weaver about the newspaper’s yearlong investigation into potential fraud in the Medicare Advantage program.
Big Health Care is ending a terrible year. Is anyone happy with this business?
Patients are protesting, bipartisan lawmakers are threatening regulation – and investors are selling their shares.
The health care industry’s very bad year
The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has sparked scrutiny of the business of health care. But even the investors making money from this business have been unhappy with it this year.
Employers lobby to keep health care prices transparent in hopes of containing costs
Donald Trump’s first administration advanced rules forcing hospitals and insurers to reveal prices for medical services. Employers don’t want to risk backtracking during Trump’s second administration.
The push to extend a waiver that allows hospitals to care for patients at home
“Hospital at home” allowed Medicare and Medicaid to pay for intense treatment of patients in their homes. It’s set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress acts. A five-year extension is on the table.
Public health officials try to control bird flu in U.S. dairy capital
More milk products come from Tulare County, California than any other county in the U.S. Public health officials there are trying to guard against bird flu infecting humans.
Is this health care’s Occupy Wall Street moment?
The consumer outrage unleashed by the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO echoes the anti-banking fury after the financial crisis and comes at a time when populist economic fatigue helped re-elect Trump.
