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A 39-year-old Philadelphia day care teacher, made three monthly premium payments at more than three times the subsidized rate just to make sure she was covered. And her insurance has still been canceled three times
Expert panels suggest those with less serious liver disease wait for drugs in development.
Some of Missouri’s working poor have had no dental coverage since benefits were cut in 2005.
With a climate especially bad for asthmatics, Missouri has been a pioneer in fighting the disease.
The federal government hasn’t been counting the number of people who buy non-exchange plans directly from insurance carriers — and that number could be substantial.
Both opponents and supporters complain that consumers cannot easily see whether the policies will pay for abortion services.
The health law set national rules for appealing a denied claim, and advocates say consumers should take advantage of them.
In the “Choosing Wisely” campaign, medical specialty societies have published lists of procedures that doctors and patients should consider skeptically. But some groups overlooked their own dubious, but profitable procedures.
Mary Chiu complained in 2011 that her elderly mother suffered terribly from poor care in a nursing home. Hers is among hundreds of cases that remain unresolved due to a backlog of investigations in Los Angeles County.
The cabinet member who shepherded the implementation of the health law told the president last month that she wanted to leave after open enrollment was finished, a White House official says.
Obama said in remarks at the White House that Kathleen Sebelius told him in March that she was going to step down as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after the health law’s first open enrollment period came to an end. Sebelius also spoke at the event Friday.
Doctors who use the model say they can keep their costs down by avoiding the bureaucracy of the health insurance system.
KHN’s consumer columnist says new federal guidance says as long as you applied during open enrollment you will not face a penalty.
An audit that followed a KHN report revealed an alarming backlog of more than 3,000 open inspections at nursing homes. The supervisor in charge of the inspections has been replaced and moved to a ‘special assignment.’
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature.
