Trump Says He’d Take ‘take a look’ at Changing Entitlements Such as Medicare

President Donald Trump opened the door Wednesday to overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare, a move that could run counter to a campaign promise – and one that Democrats attacked.

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How Personal Will Facebook’s Health App Get?

Facebook is getting into the health care game. For now, Facebook Preventative Health is keeping it simple and relatively unthreatening. Users must opt into the feature and in return they get push notifications suggesting they engage in various preventative health measures, such as an annual physical or a flu shot.

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Keep Cobra From Biting Medicare-Eligible Consumers: House Reps

Three top House Democrats and three top House Republicans have found something they can agree on: Someone should keep Medicare enrollment rules from biting COBRA coverage users on the neck.

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For 2020, California Goes Big On Health Care

California is known for progressive everything, including its health care policies, and, just a few weeks into 2020, state leaders aren’t disappointing.

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Supreme Court Denies Blue States’ Effort to Expedite ObamaCare Challenge

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort by Democrats to expedite a challenge to a lower court's ruling striking down a key tenet of ObamaCare, narrowing the possibility that the court takes up the contentious case this year.

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California Health Care Premiums Rose – Are Prescription Drug Costs The Biggest Culprit?

The California Department of Managed Care put out its second report aimed at increasing transparency on prescription drug costs, but perhaps the most startling revelation from the document comes in a footnote showing that health plans greatly expanded their reporting the data.

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Gavin Newsom Wants to Expand Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants, Again

Some 27,000 undocumented California senior citizens would receive Medi-Cal benefits under a funding proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Insurers Deal More Blows To Medicare For All

Health insurance companies are already reporting unprecedented growth in signing up seniors to their Medicare plans for 2020, which is bad news for certain Democrats pushing single payer versions of “Medicare for All.”

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California Bills Would Make Insurers Cover More Mental Health

California legislators on Tuesday introduced two bills aimed at improving access to mental health and addiction treatment by requiring health insurance companies to authorize some forms of treatment more quickly and to cover more comprehensive mental health services.

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Medi-Cal’s Very Big Decade

Medi-Cal had a big decade. The number of Californians enrolled in the state’s health insurance program for low-income residents swelled by 5.5 million from 2010 to 2019. It now covers 1 in 3 Californians and 40% of children.

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