Category: Health Care
GOP Candidate Eric Hovde Wanted to Raise Health Care Prices for People With Obesity
Multimillionaire banker and Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has made health care, namely his beef with Obamacare, one of…
DeSantis signs Live Healthy bills meant to train, retain health-care workers
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a package of bills Thursday that supporters say will help improve access to health…
Primary care doctors are a critical link to better health for seniors
Reaching retirement age can be a wonderful time in life — traveling to the places on your bucket list, spending…
Mom’s $4M bill for quadruplets’ care sparks conversation on high health care costs
A mom’s hospital bills for her quadruplets’ neonatal intensive care unit stay, totaling over $4 million, is sparking a conversation…
NI health: ‘My father’s care during Covid was negligent’
By Marie-Louise Connolly BBC News NI health correspondent A woman whose 84-year-old father died in hospital during the pandemic said…
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
WASHINGTON — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep…
Hennepin leaders want ballpark tax to fund health care improvements
Hennepin County leaders want state lawmakers to make the sales tax used to build Target Field permanent so most future…
Facing public backlash, some health care companies are abandoning hospital deals
ANNA CLAIRE VOLLERS Stateline.org Worried about hospitals closing and higher costs for patients, state lawmakers are increasingly tangling with hospitals…
Why foster kids aren’t getting the mental health care they need
Last fall, a 15-year-old foster child in Kansas took his own life. According to a local news report, the boy’s…
Weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved for heart health — but that won’t mean broad insurance coverage just yet
The blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved in the U.S. for heart health. But some health plans and…
