Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency that found a failure to care for youngsters whose lives have already been disrupted. A report released Monday by ...
Read More »Threatened medical deduction seen as valuable, versatile
Several million people unlucky enough to face big medical bills not covered by their insurance would lose a valuable and versatile deduction under the House GOP tax bill. Groups representing older people and patients are trying to save it. “Anybody ...
Read More »Calling it a beginning, Trump signs health care order
President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to rewrite federal rules so consumers can have wider access to health insurance plans featuring lower premiums. He called his new executive order a “beginning” and promised more actions to come. Frustrated by ...
Read More »Health law bumps up tax refunds for some; others take hit
As the April 15 tax deadline nears, people who got help paying for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law are seeing the direct effect on their refunds — hundreds of dollars, for better or worse.
Read More »800,000 HealthCare.gov customers given wrong tax info
About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration said Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns.
Read More »As sign-up deadline nears, a new risk for Obama health law
Thousands of people who signed up for health insurance this weekend may not have realized their coverage under President Barack Obama's law could be short-lived.
Read More »Anthem breach: A gap in federal health privacy law?
Insurers aren’t required to encrypt consumers’ data under a 1990s federal law that remains the foundation for health care privacy in the Internet age — an omission that seems striking in light of the major cyberattack against Anthem.
Read More »Anxiety over Supreme Court’s latest dive into health care
Nearly five years after President Barack Obama signed his health care overhaul into law, its fate is yet again in the hands of the Supreme Court.
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Read More »No health insurance? Penalties to rise in 2015
The cost of being uninsured in America is going up significantly next year for millions of people.
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