The cost of prescription drugs is rising at an alarming rate. If you’re not taking any medications, you’re one of the lucky ones. But the increasing cost of prescription drugs has created a tragedy for many Americans. For the elderly on fixed incomes (even those with their Medicare Prescription Drug Plans) or those facing […]
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A life insurance policy, like a Living Trust, needs to be reviewed and updated with important life events. What’s an important life event? These are reasons you got your life insurance policy in the first place—to protect those you love in the event something happened to you. Examples of important life events are the […]
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Source: The Hill The Obama administration is announcing Thursday a new preventive health campaign, aimed at helping people who are newly insured under ObamaCare as well as others, better understand and use their coverage. The public awareness initiative, called “Healthy Self,” is intended to help people know about and use the preventive services that are […]
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Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — The night his administration’s Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, President Obama described the victory the way he hopes historians will: as a “stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American dream.” But Mr. Obama’s prospects for a legacy of expanding health care coverage in the United […]
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Source: Kaiser Health News The list continued to grow of preventive services that people are entitled to receive without paying anything out of pocket. In 2014, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended two new services and tweaked a handful of others that had previously been recommended. Under the health law, preventive care that receives […]
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Source: Washington Times President Obama and his top aides are increasingly portraying this month’s Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare subsidies as the final showdown for the health care law, saying that if the justices rule in their favor it should be the signal for Republicans to give up their attacks and move on to other […]
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Source: Wall Street Journal When it comes to long-term care, two facts stand out. First, an estimated 70% of people will need such care, which will be costly. And second, most of them refuse to buy insurance to cover it. The question is, why? Part of the explanation, no doubt, is that long-term-care insurance is […]
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Source: California Healthline Medi-Cal enrollment has increased by 34% since the Affordable Care Act went into effect, leading all other Medicaid programs in the country in terms of total beneficiaries, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, HealthyCal reports. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program. Details of Increase in Enrollment California — one of 29 […]
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Source: Kaiser Health News Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are “unreasonable” — and most blame drugmakers for those prices, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 74 percent of those taking prescription drugs find the costs unreasonable, as do 72 percent of […]
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Source: CFO Republican lawmakers have floated a number of contingency plans in case the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act’s financial subsidies for qualified individuals buying health insurance through the federal exchanges operating in 34 states. The high court is expected to rule later this month in the case of King v. Burwell. […]
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