ACA Makes Prescriptions Unaffordable – Now What?

Pharma CostsThis year the Affordable Care Act is finding new ways to make healthcare unaffordable for those who do not qualify for subsidies.

In addition to those huge premium increases, the Obamacare plans are clobbering policy holders by covering only generic and "Preferred Brand" medicine...

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Obamacare Plans Don't Always Include Top Cancer Centers

[caption id="attachment_1180" align="alignright" width="505"]Patients always have the right to appeal an insurer's decision to turn down their request for care at a major cancer center. But the chances an appeal will be honored can vary widely by type of cancer and an individual's case. Roy Scott/Ikon Images/Getty Images Patients always have the right to appeal an insurer's decision to turn down their request for care at a major cancer center. But the chances an appeal will be honored can vary widely by type of cancer and an individual...

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GOP’s ‘Obamacare’ repeal path worries health care industry

Insurers tell new administration and Congress that they need to “send strong signals” that they’re willing to maintain the current market trumpobamathrough at least Jan. 1, 2019.

WASHINGTON – One by one, key health care industry groups are telling the incoming Republican administration an...

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Texas Health Insurance in Flux

Is Obamacare sinking in Texas? Or just facing more growing pains?

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Health care spending nationwide will hit a new high this year, rising 4.8 percent, the government said last...

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