Consumers With Serious Medical Problems Need To Carefully Assess Total Plan Costs
The price of premiums isn’t the only expense to consider when evaluating policies from the insurance marketplace.
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Checking The Facts Behind Obamacare Claims
FactCheck.org has gotten lots of questions about the law and has found that there’s a lot of wrong information out there.
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Nurse Practitioners Try New Tack To Expand Foothold In Primary Care
Advanced practice nurses say that despite growing need for primary care, they are stymied by insurers that won’t credential them.
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Health Marketplaces Are Open To Nearly Everyone
But individuals who already have insurance through work, Medicare or Medicaid don’t need to shop there.
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How Will Immigrants Fare Under Obamacare? It’s Complicated
What benefits, if any, immigrants get under the health-care overhaul depends on several factors: their immigration status, income, length of stay in this country and – in limited cases – their country of origin.
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A Reader Asks: When I Retire Can My Husband Get Coverage On The Marketplace?
Consumer columnist says he likely can, but the bigger question is whether he will qualify for subsidies to help defray costs.
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‘A Calling’ To Care For The Poor At St. Louis’ Grace Hill Community Centers
Some of the funding for Grace Hill and smaller community health centers in St. Louis may be in jeopardy, even as the number of people seeking discounted care or free is increasing in a state that will not expand Medicaid under the health law.
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Navigators Say GOP Lawmakers’ Information Requests Are ‘Shocking’
Organizations that received federal grants to hire and train workers to sign up consumers for health insurance say lawmakers are asking for too much too soon.
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Texas Minors Can No Longer Use Tanning Salons
As of Sept. 1, the state became one of about a dozen to ban indoor tanning by the young, citing research linking the practice to deadly forms of skin cancer.
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