While lawmakers grilled Robert F. Kennedy about his views on vaccines and abortion, President Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was also asked how he’d run the two largest government health insurance programs − Medicare and Medicaid. The hearing offered the public a glimpse of the Trump administration’s plans…
A group of Republican attorneys general have lost their bid for a temporary injunction that would have blocked the federal government from imposing new staffing level requirements on nursing homes. Last year, the Biden administration approved new staffing requirements for nursing homes that collect taxpayer money through Medicaid and Medicare. The rules, which are to…
Across the nation, the rate of uninsured individuals has increased, with 8.2% of the U.S. population being uninsured as of 2024. That’s 27.1 million individuals. And those that are insured often find it increasingly difficult to maintain insurance company’s high premiums, or find the amount of insurance coverage to be significantly lacking. These issues are…
ASHEVILLE – HCA Healthcare is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit Buncombe County filed against the Nashville, Tennessee-based health care system earlier this year. In its original complaint, filed Aug. 6 in state superior court and later moved to U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the county alleges staffing…
Elise Free is a contributor for, Scary Mommy, The Mighty, Buzzfeed, Mamalode and LA Parent. She lives in Iowa with her daughter Quinn, a naughty Corgi pup and two cats; they’re thinking about getting a goat. The vast majority of my family will vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 election. My daughter has cystic…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is proposing a new rule under the Affordable Care Act that would require private insurers cover the cost of over-the-counter contraception without additional costs to patients. The move to make over-the-counter birth control free comes two weeks before Election Day as Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats campaign on…
At the end of the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, 3.3 million more U.S. residents had health insurance than did so in 2019, according to a Capital & Main analysis of U.S. Census data conducted with the support of Thomas Data Consulting. That increase led to a 1.2% decline in the national uninsured…