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Cheaper Plans and More Options as ACA Stabilizes From Onslaught
WASHINGTON — Nearly three years into President Donald Trump’s aggressive efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act, prices for the most popular type of health insurance plan offered through the health law’s federal marketplace will actually drop next year, and the number of insurers offering plans will go up.
Health Law Premiums to Fall and Number of Insurers to Rise Next Year
WASHINGTON — Nearly three years into President Donald Trump’s aggressive efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act, prices for the most popular type of health insurance plan offered through the health law’s federal marketplace will actually drop next year, and the number of insurers offering plans will go up.
Health Officials Urge Caution in Reducing Opioids for Pain Patients
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Thursday instructed doctors to use more caution when taking chronic pain patients off opioid medications, a response to reports that many have been cutting off prescriptions too quickly, in some cases even dismissing patients from their practice.
Pelosi Details Drug-Price Plan, Adding to a Stalled Debate
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday released her long-awaited plan to curb soaring prices of prescription drugs, a political chess move that could prod the Senate to move and heat up congressional negotiations with the White House on a popular but elusive goal.
Opioid Treatment Is Used Vastly More in States That Expanded Medicaid
States that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act have seen a much bigger increase in prescriptions for a medication that treats opioid addiction than states that chose not to expand the program, a new study has found.
Democratic Debate Turns Ferocious Over Health Care
WASHINGTON — It took only one question — the very first — in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate to make it clear that the issue that united the party in last year’s congressional elections in many ways now divides it.Democratic Debate Turns Ferocious Over Health Care
WASHINGTON — It took only one question — the very first — in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate to make it clear that the issue that united the party in last year’s congressional elections in many ways now divides it.On the doorstep with a plea: will you support medicare for all?
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Art Miller listened patiently as the stranger on his doorstep tried to sell him on the Medicare for All Act of 2019, the single-payer health care bill that has sharply divided Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
Judge blocks work requirements for medicaid recipients in Arkansas and Kentucky
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday threw out Medicaid work requirements in two states, a blow to Republican efforts to profoundly reshape a program that has provided free health insurance to the poorest Americans for more than 50 years.
Methadone Helped Her Quit Heroin. Now She's Suing U.S. Prisons to Allow the Treatment.
A Massachusetts woman recovering from heroin addiction sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Friday over its policy prohibiting methadone treatment, which she wants to continue when she starts a yearlong sentence next month.Medical school run by Kaiser plans to waive student tuition
Kaiser Permanente, which has its own hospitals, clinics, doctors and insurance plan, is following the New York University School of Medicine, which announced in 2018 that it would eliminate tuition for all current and future students.
It was going to be the 1st safe injection site for opioid users, but the Trump administration is suing to block it
The nonprofit group, Safehouse, was formed last year to house the country’s first so-called safe injection site in Philadelphia.
Study Links Drug Maker Gifts to Doctors to More Overdose Deaths
WASHINGTON — A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic.Study Links Drug Maker Gifts to Doctors to More Overdose Deaths
WASHINGTON — A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic.Debating the Use of Drugs to Curb Drug Abuse
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Debating the Use of Drugs to Curb Drug Abuse
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Just past a cemetery along a country road, an addiction treatment center called JourneyPure at the River draws hundreds of patients a month who are addicted to opioids and other drugs. They divide their days between therapy sessions, songwriting, communing with horses and climbing through a treetop ropes course. After dinner, they’re driven into town in white vans for 12-step meetings.
Feud Over Use of Drugs to Curb Abuse of Drugs
(The Treatment Gap)Feud Over Use of Drugs to Curb Abuse of Drugs
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Just past a cemetery along a country road, an addiction treatment center called JourneyPure at the River draws hundreds of patients a month who are addicted to opioids and other drugs. They divide their days between therapy sessions, songwriting, communing with horses and climbing through a treetop ropes course. After dinner, they’re driven into town in white vans for 12-step meetings.
