Marketplace News: Walmart Positions Itself As A Primary Care Provider
The big-box retailer is stepping up efforts to become a destination for medical services, including chronic disease management.
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The big-box retailer is stepping up efforts to become a destination for medical services, including chronic disease management.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that President Barack Obama signed into law the $16.3 billion measure to overhaul the veterans' health system.
The number of people likely to face penalties for not complying with the overhaul's insurance mandate is estimated at 4 million -- down from the previous projection of 6 million, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation.
A new Gallup poll shows that Kansas was one of just three states that saw an increase in its uninsured rate while Connecticut's rate was cut in half.
A selection of health policy stories from Vermont, West Virginia, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin and Massachusetts.
Obama administration officials challenged reports that individual plans will go up an average of 13.2 percent next year. In addition, there are updates on Connecticut and Washington state insurance cost and coverage.
The health law built in changes to the system of coverage for lower-income people.
When so many patients leave a hospice alive, it could signal problems such as inadequate care or companies seeking financial gains by enrolling people who should not have been considered hospice patients, The Washington Post reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports that, even though businesses with fewer than 50 employers are exempt from the health law's most stringent requirements, they still face challenges. Also, patient groups increasingly worry that coverage through the overhaul's exchanges might shift drug costs to people with chronic illnesses, and HIV and AIDS advocates have filed a formal complaint about drug pricing.
A study by the Partnership for a New American Economy concluded that immigrants make a substantial contribution to the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund -- putting more into the system than they take out. Also in the news, the Center for Public Integrity examines how Medicare Advantage plans may routinely overbill the health insurance program for older Americans.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
Veterans are expected to have an easier time getting health care under a $16.3 billion measure the president is expected to sign into law Thursday, enabling the hiring of thousands of doctors and nurses.
This week's articles come from Time, Health Affairs, The New Republic, The New York Times, Vox, The New Yorker and Stanford Medicine.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories about how uninsured people fare with the health law's exemptions.
The study found that states that expanded Medicaid and set up their own exchanges experienced greater declines in the rate of uninsurance than those that didn't. Nationwide, the percentage of uninsured Americans dropped from 18 percent in September 2013, to 13.4 percent in June 2014, according to the survey.
Connecticut regulators deny an insurer's proposed rate increase but criticize the state's public hearing process. Meanwhile, Illinois officials give the public online access to rate filings and Florida advocates blame state lawmaker's suspension of rate review for the big premium increases in that state.
Using the experimental drug before it is tested in clinical trials will make it difficult to determine whether it is actually safe and effective, say scientists. Meanwhile, African officials say they have been inundated with requests from dying patients and their relatives for the same treatment.
Meanwhile, health law insurance subsidy calculations by the Internal Revenue Service may not have been as inaccurate as first thought, an audit suggests. And the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel parses the health law stances of candidates in the race for governor.
Rep. Jeff Miller says the Department of Veterans Affairs may have manipulated on a fact sheet given to Congress the number of veterans who died as a result of waiting for care.
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