Obamacare

(Unsplash) A new rule allows employers to give workers more insurance choices.Despite all the hoopla about Obamacare and its individual plans, most working-age Americans still get their health insurance through their employers. And as countless health wonks …

The new plan is covered in a budget passed last week, as Politico reported Sunday. It has been the top priority of the new government of Governor Gavin Newson, whose first act as governor was to propose using Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to cover “…

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Price, a Republican representative from Georgia, was confirmed as health and human services secretary Feb. 10, 2017, by a Senate vote of 52-47. He resigned on Sept. 29, 2017, amid scrutiny over his use of private planes at taxpayer expense and three days aft…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin We must make it profitable to treat sick patients. Photo credit: Getty Getty Of all the things we might do to improve our health care system, the one reform that is more important than any other is alm…

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, offered again to team up with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., this time to make birth control available as an over-the-counter medication. "Perhaps, in addition to the legislation we are already working on together to ban Membe…

"Besides near-perfect protection against HIV, PrEP is a good gateway for young adults to access preventive and primary care services," Urbina added. With the task force's "bold" recommendation, "the elusive goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. now see…

Louisiana remains poised to enact a sweeping Obamacare replacement proposal, known as the Health Care Coverage for Louisiana Families Protection Act, which would allow the state insurance commission to open the health insurance market to anyone not covered by…

In a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, California is expanding access to health care for its largest uninsured group: the undocumented. Activists have been trying to get the state to cover undocumented residents for some time, as about 1.4 million la…

James Thompson, the Democratic congressional candidate who ran for office in Kansas’ 4th Congressional District, announced on Sunday that he was diagnosed with a rare cancer and will likely end his political career. The civil rights attorney, who has served …