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UnitedHealth tops profit forecasts but medical costs linger for health care giant

Jan. 16, 2025 11:23 AM EST

UnitedHealth posted a better-than-expected profit in the final quarter of 2024, but a nagging rise in medical costs and care utilization surprised Wall Street. Shares of the health care giant slid Thursday after it released its first financial report since the brazen shooting of one...

Nevada GOP governor tells Democratic-controlled Legislature to set politics aside, find compromise

Jan. 15, 2025 22:56 PM EST

Nevada's Republican governor extended a hand Wednesday to the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, saying they need to come together to find solutions for urgent issues like affordable housing and access to adequate health care. Gov. Joe Lombardo's address in the state capital...

New Mexico state spending plan seeks more federal Medicaid dollars as Donald Trump takes office

Jan. 15, 2025 20:28 PM EST

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Leading New Mexico legislators on Wednesday recommended a 5.7% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year that emphasizes health care access, public school improvements, and early education and childcare programs that can boost household finances. ...

Some parents could be able to join Georgia's Medicaid program without working

Jan. 15, 2025 19:26 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday he wants to let low-income parents with young kids enroll without working in a Medicaid program that provides coverage for some able-bodied adults. Kemp's announcement came as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office...

Democratic attorneys general ask to defend health access for 'Dreamers' since Trump probably won't

Jan. 15, 2025 14:17 PM EST

A group of Democratic attorneys general asked a court on Wednesday to let them defend a federal policy that opened subsidized health coverage to “Dreamers," young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. They want to take up the mantle since they anticipate...

Here's the advice Biden's top health official has for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Jan. 08, 2025 19:07 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people were dying from COVID-19 every day. Americans were still being ordered to stay-at-home or mask in public. Millions of people were eager to line up for jabs of the newly-released COVID-19 vaccines. That's the scene the nation's top health...

'Obamacare' hits record enrollment but an uncertain future awaits under Trump

Jan. 08, 2025 05:30 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama's landmark health legislation, as the program awaits an uncertain future under a Republican-controlled White House and Congress. Never...

West Virginia patients are left in limbo over changing insurance coverage of obesity medications

Jan. 02, 2025 13:31 PM EST

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Lory Osborn says the Wegovy she was prescribed 15 months ago did more than help her lose 75 pounds — over a quarter of her body weight. The administrative assistant at West Virginia University said she feels healthier at 62 than she has since graduating high school. ...

Middle East latest: Dozens of patients and wounded evacuated from Gaza for treatment

Dec. 31, 2024 13:18 PM EST

Dozens of patients and the wounded have been evacuated for treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says Israel's attacks on and around hospitals have pushed health care to the brink. The 45 patients left the European Hospital in the southern city of...

Israeli troops forcibly remove staff and patients from northern Gaza hospital, officials say

Dec. 27, 2024 17:30 PM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, the territory’s health ministry said. The army denied claims it had entered or set fire to the complex and...