Health Insurance Increase Is Top Reason Many Americans Feel “Squeezed”
Also: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes a look at how high-deductible plans affect doctors and then consumers.
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Also: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes a look at how high-deductible plans affect doctors and then consumers.
Other political fault lines continue to emerge among GOP leaders regarding issues such as Medicaid expansion. In addition, Jeb Bush, a possible Republican 2016 presidential candidate, offers the new congressional majority some advice on how to proceed with the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is also soliciting views on alternative ways of figuring out whether an accountable care organization has saved Medicare money.
Also in the news, reports about health plan offerings in New Jersey, as well as outreach efforts in North Carolina.
Individuals will have to report their insurance status on their 2014 taxes. In other health law issues, news outlets examine which insurers are participating in the new marketplaces, efforts to enroll Hispanics, consumers' difficulties paying for care and the impact of a Supreme Court decision.
The abortion rate in the United States has fallen by double digits over the last decade, with the greatest drop among teenagers, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For example, though diagnosis rates are down, these rates for certain demographics are going up. Also, of the 1.2 million Americans with HIV in 2011, just 40 percent said they were seeking medical care.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
News outlets also examine health policy issues in Missouri, Wisconsin, New York and Florida.
Also, Colorado lawmakers ready their own birth control funding fight.
Groups representing women, workers, employers and others will watch the case to see how the justices handle a company's refusal to reassign a woman to light duty during her pregnancy.
The government watchdog questions whether hospitals are properly reporting revenue received from group purchasing organizations. Meanwhile, federal investigators, posing as consumers, investigated prices of a colonoscopy and a hernia repair. Often, they had trouble getting answers.
The measure offers financial assistance to help low- and moderate-income people reduce their co-payments, deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs.
The dispute could undermine large businesses' support for the health law, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that legal immigrants are having difficulty signing up for coverage on the insurance marketplaces and several outlets examine the administration's efforts to increase enrollment.
News outlets also report on expansion efforts in Arizona and Wyoming.
In Minnesota, meanwhile, Republicans who won control of the state House are looking for ways to challenge the health law there but will face checks from the Democrat-controlled state Senate and executive. And in California, insurance agents who signed people up for coverage wait to be paid.
Participation in the government insurance exchanges designed for small businesses has been minimal so far and at least in Missouri, one reason may be the scant offerings, reports The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
High deductible plans are having an effect on whether people get care, and are just one of the things consumers should check before deciding what to buy.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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