As insurance prices rise, families puzzle over options: $36,000 a year for premiums alone
By Lynn Arditi New York-based performer Cynthia Freeman, 61, has been trying to figure out how to keep the Affordable Care Act health plan that she and her husband depend on. “If we didn’t have health issues, I’d just go back to where I was in my 40s and not have health insurance,” she said, “but we’re…
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- ‘We were sitting with our calculator saying “we can afford that!”’ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach
“Seven-year-old Grant Leitch had an important question for his mother. He asked if his little brother, Brett, who has cystic… Read more: ‘We were sitting with our calculator saying “we can afford that!”’ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach - Medicare limits skin substitute payments, changing market, as other proposed rules are withdrawnThe entire landscape of treatment of non-healing wounds is about to change. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has… Read more: Medicare limits skin substitute payments, changing market, as other proposed rules are withdrawn
- Trump’s idea for health accounts has been tried. Millions of patients have ended up in debt.By Noam N. Levey Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly… Read more: Trump’s idea for health accounts has been tried. Millions of patients have ended up in debt.
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- More vaccine stories: Some can get it, but many can’tThe number of people who can and cannot get the new Covid booster shot continues to startle us. When Health… Read more: More vaccine stories: Some can get it, but many can’t
- Seeking Covid vaccine, people find frustration and refusals — and sometimes successPeople trying to get a Covid vaccine recently report that there’s often a lot of confusion, frustration, refusals and failures… Read more: Seeking Covid vaccine, people find frustration and refusals — and sometimes success
- Priced out: Some long Covid specialists charge high prices for concierge careBy Britta Shoot Rachel Graves knows of exactly two neurologists specializing in dysautonomia in Washington state. In addition to dysautonomia, Graves, who… Read more: Priced out: Some long Covid specialists charge high prices for concierge care
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