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ACA Enrollment Could Fall By 5 Million As Enhanced Health Insurance Subsidies Expire
MIAMI, FL - JANUARY 15: Ronnie Cabrera, Dailem Delombard and Maylin Lezcano holding Lucas Cabrera (L-R) sit with an insurance agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors as they try to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act at the…
Abortion industry promoters find new way to threaten members of pro-life movement * WorldNetDaily * by Spencer Lombardo, Daily Caller News Foundation
New Jersey's new abortion protection bill could make pro-life activism illegal in the state. Bills A2218 and S2260 aim to prohibit protestors from “intimidating” people outside abortion clinics, and health insurers from denying…
What Life Insurance Companies Look for in Prescription Records When You Apply
Life insurance companies access prescription-drug records when assessing your risks. These records can identify information you left out of your application and provide details about your health and how you manage medical conditions. Data providers…
Colorado 'Birthday Rule' creates coverage confusion for new parents
Most parents assume they get to choose which health insurance plan covers their newborn. For one family, that wasn't the case. A little-known Colorado rule turned their son's NICU stay into months of confusion, threatening letters and hundreds of…
Teen advocate pushes California to require hearing aid coverage for children
More than half of U.S. states require health insurance plans to cover hearing aids for children, but California does not. One local teenager is working with advocates to change that. Chase Klugo was diagnosed with hearing loss as an infant. He and…
How AI prompt patterns vary by industry and shape search visibility
For more than two decades, SEO was built on keywords. But as generative AI, Google's AI Overviews, and conversational engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity reshape how people find information, prompts are becoming the new unit of search. If you don't…
Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million
Can a country put a fixed limit on its population? That is the question Switzerland will be answering on Sunday when voters go the polls to decide on a proposal to cap their population at 10 million. The move is backed by the right-wing Swiss…
Hey, Medical Debt-Havers! What If, Instead Of Owing The Hospital Money, You Owed Your Insurance Company *More* Money?
It's plainly obvious that we have a fairly serious problem with medical debt in this country. Approximately 100 million people across the country — that's 41 percent of working-age people, mind you — have medical debt. How much…
AI was supposed to cut health care costs. One of its first jobs was charging you more, PwC report shows
TL;DR: You might have expected AI to cut healthcare costs, whether it's by reducing paperwork, automating the doctor's notes, or thinning out hospital staff. But a new 60-page PwC report suggests the reverse: So far, one of its most widespread uses…
Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10 million
Imogen Foulkes Bern, Switzerland Can a country put a fixed limit on its population? That is the question Switzerland will be answering on Sunday when voters go the polls to decide on a proposal to cap their population at 10 million. The move is…
New York Democrat says Texans are raising life insurance costs-is he right?
A New York State senator says residents of his state may be paying more for life insurance because insurers rely on national mortality data that pools New Yorkers with shorter-lived populations elsewhere—including Texas. Democrat James…
The National Debt Is Raising Borrowing Costs for Everyone
Fiscal hawks like to drum up interest in the national debt by making the astronomical numbers more tangible. The United States owes $31.6 trillion to public creditors, more than $290,000 for each household. You could spend $1 million every day for…
'Bamcare scams boomed under Biden, putrid pols normalize violence and other commentary
Fraud beat: 'Bamcare Scams Boomed Under Biden Medicaid fraud has “dominated headlines,” but Obamacare has also long been “highly susceptible” to fraud, fume the Washington Examiner's editors — and it…
A lot of health AI isn't where you think it is, and it's not overseen the way you might expect
Guest: Maya Sandalow Title: Associate director for the Bipartisan Policy Center's health program Summary: From administrative decisions to care management, health AI tools are influencing outcomes in ways patients may never see. But many of those…
Guest column: To save Oregon's forests, market our worst wood
Every summer in Central Oregon now comes with the same uneasy routine: checking smoke forecasts, watching evacuation maps, and hoping the next lightning storm does not spark another disaster. People across Bend, Sisters, Redmond and La Pine already…
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