Charlotte Libov, a medical writer in Miami Beach, has always encouraged cancer patients to undergo treatment, if they can, at federally designated comprehensive cancer centers whose doctors are leaders in research and clinical trials and usually offer the latest treatments. An ongoing contract dispute between the University of Miami Health System and…
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The Kansas Health Institute designed the dashboard to create an easy way for people to access data and see how federal and state changes to marketplace health insurance affects enrollment, said analyst Kaci Cink. The dashboard shows the percentage of people in a county, state Senate or House legislative district or federal congressional district enrolled…
Governor Cooper and Candidate Cooper have been all too happy to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from health insurance executives and their PACs. Governor Cooper was too cozy with health insurance companies and that's why health costs in NC are the worst in the United States. "Candidate Cooper is desperately trying to hide the fact that Governor Cooper…
The Toro Co., a Bloomington- based maker of lawn mowers and snow removal machines for consumers and businesses, announced President and Chief Operating Officer Edric C. Funk will be promoted to chief executive officer, effective Nov. 1, as part of a long-term succession plan. HealthPartners, a Bloomington- based health insurer and health care provider, announced…
Iowa health insurance companies are proposing premium increases for Affordable Care Act customers in 2027, affecting thousands of Iowans. The proposal comes after insurers increased premiums for ACA-marketplace customers in 2026 by an average of 15.3% in Iowa. Natasha Murphy, director of health policy at the Center for American Progress, said insurance…
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It's a heightened concern for the estimated million-plus farmworkers who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, as new work requirements kick in for the federal-state healthcare program that serves low-income and disabled Americans. "Having a work requirement— having to create more paperwork and more proof— is certainly extremely challenging for…
Kelly Haggett figures that a mandatory surcharge added to Washington state's payroll tax cost her about $500 last year. The small surcharge on wages provides the funding for Washington Cares, the nation's first state-operated program for long-term care insurance. The amount will rise with inflation: A 36- year-old now earning about $50,000 a year who…
Mississippi had one of the nation's largest declines in the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange enrollment based on early 2026 numbers, meaning that it has become even more difficult for the state's working poor to garner medical care. According to The Associated Press, Mississippi's ACA health insurance exchange enrollment declined 26.4…
Iowa health insurance companies are proposing premium increases for Affordable Care Act customers in 2027, affecting thousands of Iowans. The proposal comes after insurers increased premiums for ACA-marketplace customers in 2026 by an average of 15.3% in Iowa. Natasha Murphy, director of health policy at the Center for American Progress, said insurance…
Then, according to a new report from American Journal News, Ashley Hinson missed critical votes on major national security issues to raise money for her Senate campaign. On June 24, she missed "pivotal House votes" on amendments to the 2027 Defense appropriations bill, including votes on "how the Defense Department spends money" and the "proposed drawdown of…
DES MOINES Today, local Cedar Rapids leaders and Iowans experiencing increased health insurance premiums and diminishing access to healthcare came together to call out Ashley Hinson for hiking healthcare costs by voting to oppose extending Affordable Care Act tax credits and cut Medicaid. What's more: A new report this week shows that in the time Hinson has…
The Kansas Health Institute designed the dashboard to create an easy way for people to access data and see how federal and state changes to marketplace health insurance affects enrollment, said analyst Kaci Cink. The dashboard shows the percentage of people in a county, state Senate or House legislative district or federal congressional district enrolled…
The chair of the regulatory board that decides hospital budgets and health insurance premium increases in Vermont is stepping down at the end of September, Gov. Scott appointed Owen Foster as the Green Mountain Care Board's chair in 2022 and reappointed him to serve through September 2030. In a press release posted Friday, Scott wrote "I appreciate Owen's…
Senate Adam Hamilton recently traveled to Wellington to share his vision for expanding Medicaid, restoring health insurance coverage and lowering prescription drug costs for Kansans. Too many Kansas families are being priced out of the health care coverage they need, "said Hamilton. Hamilton believes his background has prepared him to understand the…
For years, political discourse has slammed programs like Medicaid, SNAP and even Social Security as "socialist welfare." Social Security and Medicare are structurally social insurance policies. By contrast, the VA budget is funded 100% out of the U.S.
2026 JUL 24– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. For more information on this research see: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffing regulations in critical access hospitals: Implications for nurse practitioner practice and rural care access. Journal of the American…
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla.— A Florida man was arrested after deputies said he sent seven of his former co-workers' paychecks to his own bank account. The Flagler County Sheriff's Office said Jimmy Paul Garcia Velez, 31, controlled the payroll at a construction company in Palm Coast. Bonus points for creativity; he also turned off his own health insurance payments and…
