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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan Led Efforts to Improve Health-Care Access. His District Still Struggles.

AP Photo/Eric Gay Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, during session in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. BEAUMONT,…

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Biden Makes Health Care a Focus With North Carolina Visit

The White House plans to use the 14th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act to draw a contrast with Republicans…

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McCORMICK, MAZZONI and GRADY: Regional health care growth investing in people’s lives

Daniel McCormick, Dean Mazzoni and Raymond Grady The past year was one of tremendous change in the health care industry,…

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Don’t stop at pooling health insurance purchases

Dr. Dan Morhaim’s opinion piece about pooling health insurance across the state is an excellent idea (“Pooling health insurance could…

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NU president pick Dr. Jeffrey Gold’s work in education, health care and ‘big vision’ spans Nebraska

Dr. Jeffrey Gold may be known to many Nebraskans for having led two of the University of Nebraska’s Omaha campuses,…

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State Medicaid offices target estates of recently deceased to recoup their health care costs

AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…