Trump Declares Opioid Crisis a ‘Health Emergency’ but Request No Funds

President Trump on Thursday directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, taking long-anticipated action to address a rapidly escalating epidemic of drug use.

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How Does California Fit Into the Opioid Crisis?

As President Trump this morning is expected to declare the opioids epidemic a public-health emergency, the Golden State can truly relate.

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CMS to Allow States to Define Essential Health Benefits

The CMS proposed a rule late Friday aimed at giving states more flexibility in stabilizing the Affordable Care Act exchanges and in interpreting the law's essential health benefits as a way to lower the cost of individual and small group health plans.

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CBO: Bipartisan Health-Care Bill Would Reduce Deficit by $4B Over 10 Years

A bipartisan deal to shore up ObamaCare's insurance markets would reduce the deficit by nearly $4 billion by 2027, according to a score released Wednesday by Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper.

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Frustrated With Trump, Dems Introduce Drug Pricing Bill

Several high-profile Democrats on Wednesday introduced a bill to let Medicare negotiate drug prices, saying they are frustrated the measure hasn’t received a full-throated endorsement from Trump.

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Acute Confusion As Exchange Enrollment Nears

If the comments on Covered California’s Facebook page are any indication, you’re all suffering from acute health insurance confusion.

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Rapid Flurry of New Drug Pricing Leaves No Room for Public Debate

We are fortunate to live in an era of tremendous medical advances. In the last few weeks alone, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved breakthrough products for pediatric cancer, a rare form of blindness, and now adult non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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5 Things To Know About ACA At Year 5

Open enrollment for people who buy their own health insurance starts Wednesday and ends Dec. 15 this year. That’s 45 days, six weeks shorter than last year — and only one of the big changes consumers need to consider. The Trump administration has cut back on marketing and funding for navigators to help people through the process.

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Past-Due Premiums, Missing Tax Forms May Hamstring Marketplace Customers

The 2018 annual open-enrollment period for coverage on the health insurance marketplaces starts Wednesday. But if you don’t take care of lingering issues from your past coverage, they may come back to haunt you when you try to sign up this fall.

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10 Ways the Trump Administration Proposes to Loosen ACA Market Rules

The CMS Friday issued a proposed rule to carry out President Donald Trump's January executive order to relax Affordable Care Act requirements on consumers, insurers and other healthcare industry groups. 

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