Public Health
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In Congress, Calls Mount for Social Security to Address Clawbacks
An investigation by KFF Health News and Cox Media Group gained further traction on Capitol Hill this week as additional…
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Desantis, Newsom to Tangle Over Hot-Button Health Issues
Angela Hart and Daniel Chang Florida’s Republican presidential hopeful, Ron DeSantis,and Democratic firebrand Gavin Newsom of California square off today…
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Uncle Sam Wants You … to Help Stop Insurers’ Bogus Medicare Advantage Sales Tactics
Susan Jaffe After an unprecedented crackdown on misleading advertising claims by insurers selling private Medicare Advantage and drug plans, the…
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FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity
A recent Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest anesthesiology groups of monopolistic practices that sharply…
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Medicare Advantage Increasingly Popular With Seniors — But Not Hospitals and Doctors
A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska…
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Cigna, Humana shares fall after report health-care giants could merge
The Cigna Group headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut, on Oct. 27, 2023. BlooJoe Buglewicz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of…
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Hospitals and Doctors Are Fed up With Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage plans are pretty popular with both lawmakers and ordinary Americans — they now enroll about 31 million people,…
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‘Forever Chemicals’ in Thousands of Private Wells Near Military Sites, Study Finds
Water tests show nearly 3,000 private wells located near 63 active and former U.S. military bases are contaminated with “forever…
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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics
Former President Donald Trump often seems proud to advertise his administration’s record on speedily developing covid-19 vaccines. On the campaign…
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Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get
MISSOULA, Mont. — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office.…
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