Deadline is March 31 By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With less than two weeks left to sign up for insurance coverage under...
By Charles Ornstein Special to the NNPA from ProPublica Much has been written (and will continue to be written) about the spectacular failure of health insurance exchanges...
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...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It may just be the start of a new trend. The uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as expanded...
[The Washington Post] Add this to the scary but improbable things people are hearing could happen because of the new federal health-care law: After you die,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health insurance companies can no longer turn away people with medical problems, but the Obama administration isn’t taking any chances with thousands of...
[Hattiesburg American] WASHINGTON – About six out of 10 uninsured African Americans may be eligible for free or greatly reduced health insurance through Medicaid or the...
KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s final: Health insurance companies must cover mental illness and substance abuse just as they cover physical diseases. The...
(Reuters Health) – Driven by an aging population and increased access to health insurance, the U.S. will need more doctors by 2025, says a new study....
[CNBC] Hurry up and wait—for your Obamacare health insurance. Two days after Tuesday’s launch of government-run health insurance marketplaces, technological problems continue to prevent many people...
CHICAGO (AP) – The online insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul struggled to handle the wave of new...
[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 Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As more and more provisions of the Affordable Care Act roll out, the disconnect between what leaders...
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...
