IRS Issues New Tax Deductibility Limits for Long-Term Care Insurance

Traditional tax-qualified long-term care insurance policies now have new tax deductibility limits, according to the IRS.

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FDA Says it Will Overhaul Criticized Medical Device System

U.S. health officials said Monday they plan to overhaul the nation’s decades-old system for approving most medical devices, which has long been criticized by experts for failing to catch problems with risky implants and related products.

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With Federal Public Charge Rule Pending, California Braces For Possible Medi-Cal Exodus

A draft Trump administration rule that would penalize immigrants seeking green cards for accessing social services — including Medicaid — could cause thousands of kids to lose their health insurance, some advocates fear.

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HealthCare.gov Application Activity Improves

HealthCare.gov signup activity continued to improve during the third week of the open enrollment period for individual major medical coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2019. Managers of the Affordable Care Act public exchange enrollment and administration system report that 748,244 households selected plans during the third week of the 2019 open enrollment period, which ended Nov. 17.

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ObamaCare Enrollment Down Compared to Last Year

Fewer people are signing up for ObamaCare plans this year compared to a similar period last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Trump administration. 

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A Drug Maker Boosted the Price of Its Opioid-Overdose Antidote by 600 percent, and Taxpayers Suffered

In order to capitalize on the opioid crisis, a small company that sells a version of naloxone, a decades-old drug that is widely used to reverse the effect of opioid and heroin overdoses, raised the price of its product by more than 600 percent between 2014 and 2017, which cost the federal government more than $142 million, according to a lengthy report from a Senate subcommittee.

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