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This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.

Electing To ‘Opt Out” Of Obamacare

Steven Lopez has gone without health insurance for 15 years, and the Affordable Care Act hasn’t changed his mind. Once again this year he will forgo coverage, he said, even though it means another tax penalty.

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Blue Shield, California’s Biggest Obamacare Insurer, Vows It’s Not ‘Running For The Hills”

The chief executive of Blue Shield of California, the largest insurer on the state-run marketplace, says he’s committed to selling coverage there even as Republicans pursue a repeal of the federal health law.

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Covered California Board Addresses Future of Obamacare

It was all hands on deck at Covered California’s monthly board meeting Thursday as leaders of the state insurance exchange and a panel of experts spent hours trying to divine a health care world according to President-elect Donald Trump.

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Momentum To Regulate Drug Prices Uncertain After Prop 61 Defeat, Republican Victories

Republican control of the White House and Congress erodes the possibility of federal action to control the price of prescription drugs, health policy experts say.

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California Faces Major Reversal If Trump, Congress Scrap Health Law

California has a lot to lose if President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress fulfill their campaign pledge to repeal Obamacare.

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If The Obamacare law Is Repealed, Could California Keep It Anyway?

Millions of Californians have gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Now the future of that federal law – and medical coverage for those people -- is in doubt. President-elect Donald Trump said repeatedly during his campaign that one of his first acts would be to “repeal and replace” the law known as Obamacare.

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A Side-by-Side Comparison of Trumpcare and Obamacare

This wildest presidential election possibly ever is now in the books. Donald Trump, a man who has never held political office and has no military background, stands ready to head to the Oval Office in roughly two months to become the 45th president of the United States.

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Millions Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Trump Plan

Millions of low-income Americans on Medicaid could lose their health coverage if President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress follow through on GOP proposals to cut spending in the state-federal insurance program.

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Nevada Ranks 43rd in Hospital Safety Report, But That’s an Improvement

Most of Nevada’s hospitals are struggling to make the grade when it comes to patient safety, according to a new report by a national health-care watchdog that placed the state near the bottom of its rankings.

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Nevadans Coming to Terms With Increased Health Care Costs

Millions of Americans are facing double digit increases in their health premiums as open enrollment begins on state health exchanges.

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