A Commonwealth Fund survey published October 22 finds that the share of working-age adults without health insurance rose from 8.9 percent in 2024 to 11.2 percent in 2026. Half of all adults aged 19 to 64 said they had gone without needed medical care in the past…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing heavy restrictions on traditional Medicare enrollees’ use of remote monitoring devices. Where the HHS inspector general suggested a scalpel, CMS would use a hammer. Already, a bipartisan group of House members…
Corporations have always fought universal healthcare proposals. But will their old playbook still work in a new era? Even though a meaningful attempt at reform is still years away and universal health care in any form might seem like a…
In a ruling on Thursday, a federal judge in Boston ruled for the District of Columbia and a 25-state coalition in their suit against the Trump administration’s requirement that Medicaid recipients with chronic illnesses prove they cannot work. At oral…
Last November, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the elimination of “black box” warnings on hormone replacement therapies, aiming to reverse nearly two decades of stigma surrounding a key treatment for menopause symptoms. Among the officials at a…
Does the medical industrial complex endorse health care’s status quo? Do its major players think a divided and therefore paralyzed Congress will prevent the multiple crises that will hit in full force early next year? Judging by their campaign contributions…
KFF counted 193 counties with no Medicare Advantage drug plan open to general enrollment in 2027, up from 123 this year Humana and UnitedHealthcare are ending Medicare Advantage plans that cover close to 1 million people for 2027, and a new analysis of county-level data…
Montana, Oregon and Missouri closed pediatric intensive care units in the past year, and families now travel farther. Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive…
Pediatricians expect more cutbacks in the wake of federal Medicaid cuts. Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in…
Clinicians in hospital intensive care unit This past June, GoozNews forecast the uninsured rate would soar to 11 percent this year due to changes contained in the One Big Ugly Bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by…
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