Kaiser Permanente has opened its first two medical offices in northern Nevada as part of its joint venture with Renown Health, expanding access to high‑quality, affordable health care for the local community. This expansion comes as Hometown Health — now jointly owned by Kaiser Permanente and Renown Health — is becoming Kaiser Permanente. Now, members ...
Plans on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges are set for further premium increases next year, a new report shows. Analysts at KFF dug into preliminary rate filings from payers for the 2027 plan year and found a median proposed premium increase of 14%. The report is based on filings from 16 states and the District of ...
Twenty-five Democratic-led states plus the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration over its new work requirements for people who get their health insurance through Medicaid. At issue is a “medically frail” designation that the states say is too narrow and will make it too difficult for ill and disabled people to remain on Medicaid. They’re challenging ...
For the second year in a row, many Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing double-digit premium increases, driven by rising medical costs as well as policy changes by Congress and the Trump administration. In preliminary filings with state regulators, insurers are seeking a median rate increase of 14% for 2027, according to an analysis of filings in ...
For decades, Californians have generally said that immigrants, who make up more than a quarter of the state’s population and a third of its labor force, are beneficial to the state and its economy. But budget instability and concerns about rising costs are spilling into a debate over the controversial and expensive policy of allowing low-income immigrants without legal status to ...
California Republicans are turning to the Trump administration to do what they couldn’t in the Legislature: defeat a new tax on health insurers recently approved by Democrats. More than a dozen Assembly Republicans sent a letter Monday to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Centers for Medicare & ...