TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Millions of Medicare Advantage customers are fast approaching a deadline for a task they’d rather avoid: Researching and then settling on...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence...
HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With many seniors facing high medical bills, a congressional investigation has found that federal government websites meant to give...
Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The federal health insurance exchange went live Sunday night for window shopping — a couple days later than some...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled a new version of HealthCare.gov on Wednesday, with some improvements as well as at least...
(Business Week) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT:US)’s move to eliminate health insurance for about 30,000 part-time workers underscores the mixed benefits of Obamacare for companies and their...
ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart is taking one-stop shopping to another area: health insurance. The world’s largest retailer plans to work...
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Some of the health-insurance subsidies being offered under the Affordable Care Act represent an “abuse of discretion” by...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of uninsured patients admitted to hospitals has dropped markedly this year, reducing charity care and bad debt...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Some might think the annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage the U.S. Census Bureau released last week...
(The Washington Post) – What’s in a name? When it comes to health plans sold on the individual market these days, it’s often less than...
(New York Times) – In an earnings call last week, Walmart announced that its workers were signing up for health insurance en masse. The news was bad for the company’s...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don’t give much thought to each year’s renewal....
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer The nation’s largest health insurer expects to play a much bigger role in the health care overhaul next year, as the...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most people who signed up under President Barack Obama’s health care law rate their new insurance highly, but a...
by Starla Muhammad and Eric Ture Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO – The March 31 deadline for uninsured Americans to enroll...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist My friend is awaiting health insurance. This is not academic. She’s afraid that she might have cancer. Think about...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Tor the majority of more than 45 million Black Americans and millions of others who have been historically...
[REUTERS] The percentage of Americans living in poverty remained steady last year at 15 percent after rising for several years in the wake of the recession,...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist Recently, 400,000 poor and underserved Louisianans, many them people of color, were shut out of potentially life-saving health insurance...
