The long-term care insurance market in 2025 is maturing and robust but still needs a large amount of sales to help meet the need that is out there.
Navigator program funding has been cut by $90 million. Here’s why I think that’s a good thing.
House Republicans proposed slashing Medicaid as a way to pay for federal budget cuts that would fund a GOP agenda that includes tax cuts, border security and energy production.
The long-term care insurance market in 2025 is maturing and robust but still needs a large amount of sales to help meet the need that is out there.
Prudential Financial launched OneLeave, adding new absence and disability capabilities to help address the challenges of workplace leaves and the disruption it can create for both employers and employees.
Navigator program funding has been cut by $90 million. Here’s why I think that’s a good thing.
Health insurers operating in North Carolina are required under several laws enacted over decades to provide a variety of medical benefits and coverages. Since 2001, a state law has required the coverage of colorectal cancer screening for every covered individual over 50 and all those under 50 who are determined to be a high risk for the disease.
Medicaid, the government program that covers health care for nearly a million Connecticut residents, has become a focus of controversy both in Hartford and Washington, D.C., this winter as costs continue to grow. Care for Medicaid patients cost $9.8 billion in Connecticut in 2024, according to health data site KFF, with the federal government paying for about…
2025 FEB 17– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily– Current study results on Coronavirus- COVID-19 have been published. Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health,“ Main avoidance reasons were users avoiding contact with other users, families avoiding contact with…
Feb. 14— HARTFORD— This week, the CEO of CVS Health expressed confidence that the company would turn around its embattled health-insurance business, the Hartford- based Aetna. CVS' reputation in Connecticut has been dented by its elimination in the past year and a half of more than 1,000 jobs connected to its offices in Hartford, including several hundred…
A West Linn house used as the home office of a physician who helped established one of the first prepaid health plans in the nation during the Great Depression has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. McLean’ s home office, a well-preserved room on the second floor, best represents the origins of the Physicians' Association of Clackamas County,…
House Republicans proposed slashing Medicaid as a way to pay for federal budget cuts that would fund a GOP agenda that includes tax cuts, border security and energy production.
SUITLAND, Md.— At a SuperSuds Laundromat just south of Washington, D.C., a steady stream of customers loaded clothes into washers and dryers on a recent Sunday morning, passing the time on their phones or watching television. Amid the low hum of spinning clothes, Adrienne Jones made the rounds in a bright yellow sweatshirt, asking customers about their health needs.
With Englewood "s Planned Parenthood clinic set to shut its doors late next month, Cook County officials hope to figure out how to save the South Side center, which serves thousands of patients seeking reproductive care. The increase in patients,“ coupled with low reimbursement rates from insurers and rising costs of providing care,” helped contribute to the…
Texas faces a dual challenge when it comes to delivering health care. Some members of Congress want to limit tax-free benefits and slap a federal tax on employer-sponsored insurance premiums above government-defined thresholds. Levying a tax on the insurance premiums of hard-working Texans could lead to families earning $100,000 per year facing an…
Congressional Republicans are targeting Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income Americans, for hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to help pay for sweeping tax cuts, but the extent of reform is creating intraparty divisions. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, insists his conference does not plan to cut…
Innovative legislation to expand affordable health care access to rural Ohioans has been introduced in the Ohio Legislature and has garnered the full support of Ohio Farm Bureau. "The cost of health care is impacting the financial stability of family farms and rural communities, especially when you add the recent trends of lower farm income and higher…
Recently, Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive who left the industry in 2008 and now advocates for a government-run health care system, made waves in Utah media. Joe Jarvis has also been a vocal proponent of universal health care in Utah. Common Sense Health Care for Utah also advocates for a comprehensive single-payer health care plan.
WASHINGTON- In their quest to pay for President Donald Trump's policy priorities, Republicans are eyeing Medicaid, the largest health insurance program for more than 70 million low-income Americans, as a program ripe for cuts. Among those obstacles: public opinion, members of their own party in competitive districts, governors who worry about impacts to their…
HARTFORD– This week, the CEO of CVS Health expressed confidence that the company would turn around its embattled health-insurance business, the Hartford- based Aetna. "People used to refer to Aetna in Connecticut as' Mother Aetna.' They were always present and engaged. New earnings show Aetna' s predicament.
Feb. 12— Consumers with some employer-sponsored Cigna health insurance plans may find themselves out-of-network with Mercy Health facilities on April 1 if the two health care organizations are not able to reach a deal on contract negotiations by then. Mercy Health, which has locations in Springfield, Urbana and southern Butler County, is one of the largest…
For those who don't qualify for long-term care insurance or can't afford it, the Medicaid Asset Protection Trust can protect your assets from the high cost of long-term care in your home or in a facility. The MAPT sets up two roadblocks that Medicaid cannot break through. First, you cannot be your own trustee.
Shelly Boshart Davis, R-Albany, told a legislative committee of nine men and women Tuesday that she'd rather be driving a tractor on her family's farm than talking to them about her struggles to get hormone replacement therapy as her body approaches menopause. In 2024, Louisiana passed a bill. California's legislature also approved a bill last year, but Gov.
