Companies focus more on health care costs than benefits to employees, study finds
It appears that most private companies look at how their health insurance plans impact their budgets rather than how they ...
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House Republican Budget Would Mean Higher Costs, Less Help for Families, More Tax Windfalls for Wealthy
The House Republican budget released today by Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington is an extreme giveaway to the wealthy at ...
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Constitutional crisis could impact cost of health care
Congress must decide the level of funding for the National Institutes of Health and how much can be spent researching cancer, heart disease, and other ailments or innovation in health. Congress must ...
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Drug Costs and Their Impact on Care: Insights from Medicare Patients and Providers
Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly ...
Funding Freeze Decimates Women’s Health Care, U.N. and Others Say
Only three weeks into the Trump administration’s suspension of money for foreign aid, those who work in women’s health say ...
Hospital facility fees are driving up health care costs in Houston — and catching the eye of lawmakers
The fees, which are billed separately from physician’s services, have been around for decades but have sparked nationwide ...
Changes to Inuit child funding program putting families at risk: health-care workers
Health-care workers in Nunavut say changes to a federal funding program for Inuit children are forcing some pregnant women to ...
Health care company payouts favor shareholders, new research shows
It's widely recognized that health care is a growing expense for many Americans. However, what health care companies do with ...
Trump’s attempted NIH indirect cost funding cuts could have major impact at Mass. colleges, hospitals
The order was temporarily blocked after Massachusetts and 21 other states filed a lawsuit opposing the NIH funding cuts.
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Self-insured employer plans create health cost data gap, working group contends
Employers may be contributing to high health care costs by refusing to feed claim data into state claim databases. A working ...
‘Us feeling respected, for one, would help a lot of things:’ TV6 Investigates how pay for health care workers impacts the quality of care
In worst-case scenarios, refusing to pay medical professionals enough or to adequately staff medical facilities can have deadly consequences.
The hidden toll of hearing loss in Kentucky
Access to hearing care in Kentucky, particularly in rural areas, is fraught with challenges. HHI and its KY HEARS program ...