Chloe Chalakani has a lot at stake in the health care fight at the heart of the government shutdown. Chalakani runs a small culinary business with her partner in the coastal town of Thomaston, Maine. As temperatures drop and the height of her busy tourist season winds down, she’s hitting her list of fall administrative ...

Luca-Amine Hadir was 4 days old when his parents raced him to the ER. His mother, Jill McDonald, had wanted her child to have a gentle transition into the world, and Luca’s first four days were just that. He was born at home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, in spring 2020 — Jill, now ...

A major union announced a proposal Thursday to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in California to address federal funding cuts to health care for low-income people. Proponents, including the Service Employees International Union, hope to place the statewide measure before voters next year. The tax would be on the net worth of California’s ...

Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” alumnus who started Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, told senators on Wednesday that he thinks price transparency is critical to helping employers bring down the cost of health benefits. But Cuban said his Dallas-based online discount pharmacy is using its deep knowledge of health care pricing and ...

A new report from the country’s two leading insurance industry organizations alleges providers are “flooding” the No Surprises Act dispute process to score higher payments. The report was released Friday by AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and estimates that as many as 39% of the out-of-network claims submitted to the independent dispute resolution, or ...

Extending the length of your daily walks can benefit your heart, new research suggests. In a study conducted among healthy adults, people who accumulated most of their daily steps in bouts of 15 minutes or longer had significantly lower risks of heart disease and death nearly a decade later than those who got in several ...