Health CareCommentary
The much-anticipated Senate health care bill dropped Thursday morning, and the hot takes poured in. While analysts are scrambling to understand the details of the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
While the ongoing congressional effort to reform health care is falling short of repealing Obamacare, it is critical that Congress maximize every opportunity to undo… Read More
Health CareNews
Health insurance provider Anthem announced Wednesday that it will drop out of the state exchanges in Wisconsin and Indiana, marking the latest sign that insurance… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Senate plans to release a draft of its counterpart to the House-passed American Health Care Act Thursday. The House bill contains a number of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Editor’s note: Our five-part series by Josh Siegel about the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects in one poor New Hampshire county generated ardent responses from readers…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
Americans love coffee, and they love to customize it. Me, I’m a medium, one Splenda, soy latte kind of girl. Choice is a good thing,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obamacare has failed to deliver the health care reform Americans deserve. The Senate now has an opportunity to reform health care and walk our country… Read More
Health CareNews
The Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Department soon will have the same medical data, ending a turf battle between the agencies to achieve what Veterans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In 2014, the public learned from whistleblowers that government employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, kept “secret waiting lists” to… Read More
Health CareFeature
COLEBROOK, N.H.—Sally Zankowski is who comes when it’s too late. She’s there to define, investigate—and make sense of—another sudden death owed to opioid overdose in… Read More
Health CareFeature
COLEBROOK, N.H.—Bruce Latham, a lanky, self-employed doctor, occupies a unique position in the depths of rural New Hampshire’s opioid drug addiction crisis. As part of… Read More
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COLEBROOK, N.H.—Inside a dimly lit room at the largest health care provider in New Hampshire’s least populated county, a circle of drug addicts talk about… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The House Ways and Means subcommittee on health will host a hearing this week on promoting integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. The committee will… Read More
Health CareNews
A year and a half ago “Full Measure” first reported on a baffling new illness responsible for nightmarish scenarios: a child wakes up and his… Read More
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BETHLEHEM, N.H.—They came to be addicted to drugs in different ways, but ended up in the same place. Steven Blaisdell, 26, a stocky, shy son… Read More
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COLEBROOK, N.H.—His left foot in a walking boot after surgery, Rick Samson, an independent-minded county commissioner in the northernmost part of New Hampshire, is behind… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Among Obamacare’s many problems, one of the most troubling is its mandate that nearly all insurance plans must cover abortion-inducing drugs and contraception. As Congress… Read More
Health CareNews
For employers that don’t want to provide birth control and abortifacient coverage in health insurance plans, relief may be on the way. President Donald Trump’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
With the health care debate currently dominating headlines, many Americans may be unaware of a more subtle issue that is affecting the U.S. health care… Read More
Health CareNews
The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed a $400 billion universal health care bill Thursday with no plan to pay for it. The committee passed the… Read More
Health CareNews
The American Health Care Act is in the hands of the Senate, where Republican lawmakers sound positive about the task of drafting their version of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicaid, the huge government health program for the poor and the indigent, is broken. Both the Trump administration’s recent budget submission and the House-passed American… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Congressional Budget Office updated its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act this week, prior to its being sent over to the Senate. This budgetary… Read More
Health CareNews
Health care costs continue to rise under Obamacare. A report released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services shows a significant hike in… Read More
Health CareNews
Obamacare introduced new regulations into the health care marketplace that contributed to premiums doubling after the legislation took full effect in 2014, according to a… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Americans today are facing an epidemic of chronic illness, including arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease. In fact, chronic illness is now the biggest single driver… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This week, a working group of United States senators began meeting on a biweekly basis to reach a consensus on how to repeal and replace… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A major insurance company has decided to entirely withdraw from all of Obamacare‘s health insurance exchanges in 2018. According to the Washington Examiner, the experience… Read More
Health CareNews
Aetna announced Wednesday that it will stop offering Obamacare exchange plans in 2018, making it the latest major health insurance provider to completely opt out… Read More
Health CareNews
The Senate confirmed Dr. Scott Gottlieb to lead the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, filling in the list of presidential appointments at the Department of… Read More
