health insurance

President Donald Trump’s executive order to enforce healthcare price transparency has been hailed as transformative in lowering costs and “cements Trump’s legacy” as a leader in healthcare reform.

A woman in Florida has been arrested after she allegedly threatened the health insurance company BlueShield with a copycat crime following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

GoFundMe and e-commerce site Etsy have been shutting down fundraising and merchandise efforts to support accused healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, but GiveSendGo appears to be allowing them.

Many social media users — including journalists and academics — are celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, implying that he got what he deserved.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday defended the Obamacare individual mandate, saying that insurance plans would “collapse” without a penalty for Americans who opt out of buying health coverage.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra stated that if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, “people will pool to where they can pay least.” Which will lead to costly plans for some “and the ACA made

“We need to have Medicare-for-all,” Kamala Harris said at town hall, noting she would cut private insurers.

An Atlanta restaurant has come under fire for tacking on a fee to guests’ bills to pay for employees’ health insurance, with the establishment’s owners defending the decision as “transparent.”

The state of Utah is now offering taxpayer-funded health insurance to children who arrived illegally in the United States thanks to a plan approved last year by Democrat and Republican legislators.

Beginning January 1, 2024, all illegal aliens residing in California will become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance.

Former Team U.S.A. Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton is making “truly remarkable” progress after “fighting for her life” against a rare form of pneumonia last week, her daughter says. 

Cigna Healthcare, a major player in the health insurance industry, is now at the center of a federal class action lawsuit over claims that the company has been using AI algorithms to improperly deny claims to customers. The lawsuit claims that Cigna’s system denied about 300,000 pre-approved claims, spending an average of 1.2 seconds to deny each claim.

South Korean pediatricians are exiting the profession as birth rates decline, creating a hospital environment where few children are being born, but there still are not enough doctors to care for them.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is halting a program, put in place only a few years ago, that offers taxpayer-subsidized health care benefits to illegal aliens after realizing the tremendous cost to the state’s taxpayers. 

Democrat lawmakers are pushing for insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control, if and when it becomes available without a prescription.

Children are to suffer badly as a result of Germany’s lockdown policy, with a report on Tuesday describing them as the “biggest losers” in the country post-COVID.

China’s “White Hair” or “Silver” protesters — seniors who participated in massive demonstrations over the past few weeks against cuts to the medical benefits of retirees — are being scooped up by police in the latest regime crackdown.

Chinese state media on Sunday attempted to mollify the surprisingly large protests in several cities against proposed health care cuts by claiming insurance reforms will be skillfully executed and better for everyone in the long run.

A record number of Americans postponed getting medical treatment in 2022 due to prohibitive costs, with lower-income, younger adults and women the worst affected, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

American taxpayers are footing a $324 million annual bill to provide healthcare services to illegal aliens in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, a new report finds, even as more than 30 million Americans continue to go uninsured. 

House and Senate Democrats are pleading with President Joe Biden to open American taxpayer-subsidized Obamacare rolls to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Annual premiums for family health insurance are expected to skyrocket to higher rates in 2023 due to rampant inflation, per a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

After years of lobbying from special interests, California will become the first state in the nation to offer taxpayer-funded health insurance to all of its 4.4 million illegal aliens and their United States-born children.

President Joe Biden’s federal agencies have greenlit a plan by Colorado officials to provide subsidized health insurance to the state’s growing illegal alien population.

American taxpayers foot the bill for more than $316 million in healthcare costs for illegal aliens detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last year as millions of Americans continue to go uninsured.

Democrats in the New York State Assembly and State Senate are looking to approve $345 million in taxpayer funds to open health insurance rolls to illegal aliens. 

Lawmakers in Hawaii have advanced legislation that will force insurance companies to cover “gender affirming” medical treatment for people who claim to be “transgender” or the opposite of their biological sex.

Leftist South Korean politician Lee Jae-myung — the official nominee of South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) for the nation’s upcoming presidential election on March 9 — vowed on Friday to expand the public health insurance policy in South Korea to include treatments for hair loss if elected South Korea’s top leader.

Louisiana’s Ochsner Health, the largest hospital system in the state, is imposing a fee on unvaccinated spouses of employees, requiring them to pay an health insurance fee of $100 per pay period if they remain unvaccinated.

Ride-sharing giant Uber sent an email to some of its drivers and delivery workers last month offering to cover their health insurance costs, but backtracked on the offer two weeks later.

California lawmakers are looking to increase health insurance coverage for elderly illegal aliens by letting their insured, adult children claim them as dependents. 

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, dodged a question on whether he would push to provide United States taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits to illegal aliens. 

The California insurance commissioner says young girls who claim to be uncomfortable with their biological sex must be provided with coverage for elective double mastectomies to cope with their gender dysphoria.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of President Trump’s order that migrants entering the U.S. must have health insurance.

The SAG-AFTRA is facing a class-action lawsuit from some of its own members for its decision to raise the minimum earnings requirement for its health plan. According to the complaint, the change would disqualify many elderly actors from receiving health coverage while in the middle of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.

No part of Americans’ lives stands to change more fundamentally based on who’s elected president on Nov. 3rd than their healthcare. Joe Biden supports further efforts to socialize American medicine, which would increase healthcare costs, reduce choices, and decrease quality.