Tag: health care
Amazon threat causes shakeout in the health care industry
Amazon.com Inc. is casting a long shadow over the health care industry.
The prospect of the giant internet retailer entering the business is beginning to...
Terri Sewell promotes ACA health care open enrollment period
Alabamians who wish buy insurance on the individual market could start signing-up for plans Wednesday and Alabama's 7th District U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell wants...
Survey: US uninsured up 3.5M this year; expected to rise
The number of U.S. adults without health insurance is up nearly 3.5 million this year, as rising premiums and political turmoil over "Obamacare" undermine...
Ex-Obama officials begin health insurance sign-up campaign
Former Obama administration officials are undertaking a private campaign to encourage people to sign up for coverage next year under the Affordable Care Act.
With...
Health care bill teeters, GOP adds money to woo dissidents
Top Republicans are adding money to their staggering effort to repeal the Obama health care law and say they’re pushing toward a climactic Senate...
Donald Trump tweets take on GOP holdouts on health legislation
Sen. John McCain’s opposition to the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Obama health law has dealt a likely fatal blow to...
Lindsey Graham implores colleague to vote for GOP health bill
In an overheard phone call Wednesday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham leaned on a fellow senator to back his GOP health care bill despite "all...
Alabama’s rate of uninsured children plunged to 2.4 percent in 2016
Things are looking up for children in Alabama. According to new U.S. Census data released this week, nearly 49 of every 50 children in...
Former health chiefs to Donald Trump: Avoid new ‘Obamacare’ crisis
Don't make things worse.
That's the advice of former U.S. health secretaries of both parties to President Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress, now that...
White House: Government to make health law payments this month
The government will make this month's payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law that President Donald Trump still wants to repeal and...