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House approves $895B defense bill with military pay raise, ban on transgender care for minors

Dec. 11, 2024 17:57 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military. The bill is traditionally strongly...

For now, 'Dreamers' will be shut out of the health care marketplace in 19 states

Dec. 10, 2024 16:07 PM EST

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Young adult immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 U.S. states will be temporarily blocked from getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's public marketplace, a federal judge has ruled, limiting an effort by the Biden administration to help immigrants...

Hospital founded by Spanish conqueror persists 500 years later in Mexico's capital

Dec. 06, 2024 23:04 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In Mexico City’s bustling historic center, the Hospital de Jesus covers most of a city block. Its faded unassuming yellow facade, characteristic of the middle of the last century, obscures the medical center within founded 500 years ago by Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés. ...

New clues emerge as investigators hunt for the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare's CEO

Dec. 05, 2024 22:17 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — New clues emerged Thursday in the hunt for the masked gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, including possible leads about his travel before the shooting and a message scrawled on ammunition found at the crime scene. The words...

Words on ammo in CEO shooting echo common phrase on insurer tactics: Delay, deny, defend

Dec. 05, 2024 14:59 PM EST

A message left at the scene of a health insurance executive’s fatal shooting — “deny,” “defend” and “depose” — echoes a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims. The three words were written on the ammunition a masked gunman used to...

UnitedHealthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York

Dec. 04, 2024 17:22 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S. but was unknown to millions of people his decisions affected. Then Wednesday's targeted fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk thrust the executive and his business...

After 1 year, Medicaid expansion in North Carolina nears its enrollment goal

Dec. 04, 2024 15:11 PM EST

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Enrollment in North Carolina’s new Medicaid coverage for low-income adults has nearly reached the state's goal of 600,000 in half of the time initially projected, Gov. Roy Cooper said on Wednesday while celebrating the one-year anniversary of expansion in the state. ...

Mississippi could suffer the most if health insurance subsidies lapse

Dec. 04, 2024 11:35 AM EST

A new report warns Mississippi could see the steepest drop off in health insurance coverage if Congress doesn’t vote to extend temporary health coverage subsidies at the end of next year. Over 100,000 Mississippians would lose health insurance – a 43% increase in the state’s...

Rural providers, advocates push Texas Legislature to "rescue" maternal health care system

Dec. 03, 2024 15:32 PM EST

Twenty five years ago, the Texas Legislature passed a sweeping set of reforms to resuscitate the state’s collapsing rural health care system. Now, health care providers, advocates and local leaders are proposing similarly aggressive action to pull the rural maternity care system...

Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy

Nov. 27, 2024 15:20 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team of medical contrarians and health care critics to fulfill an agenda aimed at remaking how the federal government oversees medicines, health programs and nutrition. On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay...