Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
KHN鈥檚 newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
KHN鈥檚 newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Best Reads Of The Week With Brianna Labuskes
KHN鈥檚 newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Best Reads Of The Week With Brianna Labuskes
KHN鈥檚 newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Best Reads Of The Week With Brianna Labuskes
KHN鈥檚 newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Consumers Brace For Premium Hikes While Lawmakers Grasp At Remedies
Health insurers鈥 initial premium requests indicate stiff price hikes for consumers, just as bipartisan talks in Congress fall flat.
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Medicare Beneficiaries Feel The Pinch When They Can鈥檛 Use Drug Coupons
Federal law prohibits them from using the coupons drugmakers offer to help patients cover their share of a medicine鈥檚 cost.
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Best Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes, who reads everything on health care to compile our daily Morning Briefing, offers the best and most provocative stories for the weekend.
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4 New Ways You Can Avoid Fines For Not Having Health Insurance
Among changes by the Trump administration, new rules protect consumers living in areas with only one marketplace plan as well as those who oppose abortion and can鈥檛 find a plan that doesn鈥檛 cover the procedure.
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Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 The Long Wait Ends For Short-Term Plan Rules
In this episode of KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal and Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News discuss the Trump administration鈥檚 proposed regulation that would allow the expansion of short-term health insurance policies that do not comply with all the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The panelists also talk about federal funding (or not) of public health research around guns.
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Letters to the Editor
Readers And Tweeters Add Two Cents On Amazon Venture To Repackage Health Care
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Good Deals For Some, Sticker Shock For Others As ACA Enrollment Winds Down
In Tennessee, an Obamacare consumer saw her rate go from $750 to just $5 a month. But a man in Maryland had to buy a less comprehensive plan to keep his costs under $1,000 a month. Income and geography determine prices for health insurance in the fifth year of Affordable Care Act coverage.
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Consumers Who Froze Their Credit Reports Could Hit A Glitch Enrolling In Insurance
The federal marketplace generally uses credit reports to help verify identities, but that doesn鈥檛 work if consumers have put a security freeze on them 鈥 as some did after the Equifax breach this year. Workarounds for this issue exist, but they make the process more time-consuming.
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Why Do People Hate Obamacare, Anyway?
It鈥檚 not just ideology; a lot of people don鈥檛 understand what the law does or how it works.
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For Marketplace Customers Who Delay, Auto-Enrollment Could Be Nasty Wake-Up
People who have a plan from the health law鈥檚 marketplace and who don鈥檛 actively shop for a new one will be auto-enrolled on Dec. 16. But unlike past years, most people won鈥檛 be able to change those plans if they don鈥檛 like them.
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Challenges Abound For 26-Year-Olds Falling Off Parental Insurance Cliff
Insurance has often been a tough-sell among these young people because they are often healthy and choosing a plan is complicated. A shorter enrollment and less outreach could dampen enthusiasm.
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Churning, Confusion And Disruption 鈥 The Dark Side Of Marketplace Coverage
The Affordable Care Act has increased the number of people with insurance, but shopping around for plans puts a burden on patients, especially this year.
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Middle-Class Earners Weigh Love And Money To Curb Obamacare Premiums
Ineligible for subsidies, a Tennessee woman quit her job to get an affordable health care premium. Conventional steps 鈥 such as maxing out your 401(k) contribution each year 鈥 may also do the job, financial planners say.
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Brokers Are Reluctant Players In A Most Challenging ACA Open-Enrollment Season
With federal support slashed for organizations that provided consumers help in making their health plan choices, insurance brokers have to pick up the slack.
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Enrollment 2018
Obamacare Shopping Is Trickier Than Ever. Here鈥檚 A Cheat Sheet.
This year, more than ever, it is important to know your options.
By Jay Hancock