The number of Americans without health insurance was 28.5 million in the first six months of 2018, 20.1 million less than when the ACA was signed into law in 2010, according to CDC data cited by Bloomberg.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, in partnership with College Station-based Texas A&M University Health Science Center, will launch a project aimed at improving rural healthcare.
Customer satisfaction with commercial health insurers has stagnated after two years of improvement, according to ACSI's Finance and Insurance Report 2018.
Most Medicare beneficiaries — 83 percent — want greater controls on prescription drug costs, according to a survey from online health plan exchange eHealth.
While health insurance is intended to safeguard policyholders when severe illnesses arise, a survey of 1,495 of the sickest Americans found even those with insurance can experience financial fallout after a serious diagnosis, according to The New York Times.
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Former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell launched a nonprofit called Safehouse, which will operate a safe injection site in Philadelphia despite government pushback, according to NPR.
While some policymakers claim Medicaid expansion is partially to blame for the nation's opioid crisis, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found Medicaid expansion was not linked to increased opioid misuse, according to a Journal of General Internal…
Immigrants paid 12.6 percent of premiums to private health insurers in 2014 but represented only 9.1 percent of the health insurers' expenses, according to a study published in the October issue of Health Affairs.
Rebecca Savage, a trained OB-GYN nurse, created a prescription drug safety foundation after her two sons died from accidental overdoses in 2015, according to USA Today.
The healthcare industry is inundated with data, but patients aren't all that comfortable with health insurers using their personal information to determine policies, according to a recent survey.