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UnitedHealth Group unit paying $1.5 billion for UK technology company

A division of UnitedHealth Group is paying $1.5 billion to acquire a health technology firm that will deepen the company's business with the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom.

Tribune News Service

Californians brace for increased health care premiums if federal subsidies expire

SACRAMENTO — For the last two years, Syd Winlock has had a major burden lifted from his surgically repaired shoulder.

Los Angeles Times

100 million people in America are saddled with health care debt

Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated.

Tribune News Service

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Colorado’s new hospital price transparency law may change how patients shop for health care

DENVER — A new Colorado law prohibits hospitals that haven’t posted their prices from suing patients over unpaid bills, but the bigger impact of the legislation may be indirect, as customers use those prices to decide where to get care.

The Denver Post

Health centre of Wayanad tribal panchayat on national radar

Noolpuzha FHC selected for National Quality Assurance Certification for the second time

The Hindu

Liz Weston: Is medical debt vanishing from credit reports?

The three credit bureaus have promised to remove nearly 70% of medical debts from consumer credit reports within the next year

The Independent UK

NC’s senators vote no on bill that helps Camp Lejeune vets exposed to toxic water

WASHINGTON — Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr voted Thursday against the bill they helped craft that would benefit veterans from Camp Lejeune who were exposed to toxic chemicals in the base’s water for nearly three decades.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Gov. Ron DeSantis reverses, allowing Florida health care providers to order vaccines for young children

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now allowing health care providers, including pediatricians and children’s hospitals, to order COVID-19 vaccines from a federal program for children between 6 months and 5 years old, a reversal from earlier this week, White House officials told McClatchy.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

10 Health Care Stocks Whale Activity In Today's Session

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities. Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.

Benzinga

Editorial: Re-aiming: There’s another route for gun safety progress

File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to turn the modest set of “breakthrough” gun safety proposals into actual legislation. Though we are decidedly underwhelmed by the ideas — including incentives to states to enact “red flag”…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Texas leaders want to boost mental health care. What about a ‘red flag’ law?

Progress can be slow to reach the halls of the state Capitol, so we are glad to see Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan treat mental health care as a priority in the aftermath of the Uvalde massacre.

Tribune News Service

When health care goes wrong: It’s time for transparency in patient safety

The COVID-19 crisis has both divided and galvanized Canadians on health care. While the last three years have presented new challenges to health-care systems across the country, the pandemic has also exacerbated existing challenges, most notably the high levels of errors and mistreatment documented in Canadian health care.

The Conversation

Senate passes historic vote ensuring health care relief for military veterans exposed to burn pits

WASHINGTON — Help is on the way for hundreds of thousands of veterans suffering from 9/11-like toxic exposure illnesses after the U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the most significant expansion of the Veterans Administration in modern times.

Tribune News Service

Harris unveils expansion of postpartum health program for low-income moms

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday announced an expansion of a federal program that provides health care coverage for lower-income women for up to a year after they give birth.

Los Angeles Times

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Walgreens Launches Clinical Trial Business

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) has launched its clinical trial business to redefine the patient experience and increase access and retention in sponsor-led drug development research. Walgreens will combine the flexible clinical trial model with its vast data on patient insights, partner-enabled health and technology capabilities, and in-person and virtual care options. The…

The Walrus

Doctors on TikTok: The Dark Side of Medical Influencers

Medical data is supposed to be confidential. But social media is threatening the privacy and dignity of patients

Roll Call

Senate passes major benefits expansion for sick veterans - Roll Call

The Senate passed a bill to expand health care and disability benefits for veterans who served in war zones and later contracted diseases.

WEKU

Sick and struggling to pay, 100 million people in the U.S. live with medical debt

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

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Medical debt upended their lives. Here's what it took from them

First, they were struck by illness and then by medical bills they couldn't pay. Here are seven stories of Americans living under the shadow of health care debt.

Tribune News Service

Buy and bust: When private equity comes for rural hospitals

MEXICO, Missouri — When the new corporate owners of two rural hospitals suddenly announced they would stop admitting patients one Friday in March, Kayla Schudel, a nurse, stood resolute in the nearly empty lobby of Audrain Community Hospital: “You’ll be seen; the ER is open.”

Mic

Starbucks is allegedly threatening to revoke trans health care benefits if employees unionize

Truly a cruel move in the company’s union-busting efforts.

Reason

South Carolina Will Let This Hospital Bypass Its Certificate of Need Laws, but That's It

Another example of the infuriating cronyism behind CON regulations, which won't apply to a well-established hospital in Charleston that's looking to move.

WEKU

Opinion: From Kigoma to Kyiv, refugees everywhere deserve quality health care

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

Axios

Health care consumers feeling economic sting

During the pandemic, Americans aged 50 to 64 said they've been skipping medications, cutting back on food and utilities to cover their medical needs. And they're increasingly worried about covering their future bills, according to newly released Gallup polling.

WEKU

'1619 Project' journalist lays bare why Black Americans 'live sicker and die quicker'

Linda Villarosa says bias in the health care system and the "weathering" affect of living in a racist society are taking a serious toll on African Americans. Her new book is Under the Skin.

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