Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – Kansas and Oklahoma are the seventh and eighth states to get the thumbs down from the federal government on their requests to phase in new regulations that could result in health insurance rebates to consumers. Under the Affordable Care Act, companies that sell individual insurance policies must spend at [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – Signing up for health insurance during your company’s annual enrollment period, which for many plans is right now, may feel like taking a nasty dose of medicine: You know it’s good for you, but it sure doesn’t go down easy. On the plus side, nearly two-thirds of companies are [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – A provision of the 2010 federal health law seeking to increase Medicare beneficiaries’ share of health care costs is meeting resistance from an unlikely group of 33 state insurance regulators, health insurers and consumer advocates charged with revising Medigap insurance policies that cover most out-of-pocket expenses. The National Association [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – For Judy Ariba, one of the most harrowing moments in her battle against a rare form of leukemia occurred after she had already endured a long hospital stay and grueling chemotherapy: Her bill for a prescription cancer drug jumped from $10 to $1,700 a month. After Judy Ariba’s former [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – For many consumers, the ultimate test for the embattled health-care law is simple: Will it push down insurance premiums — or at least slow their relentless rise? It’s a pressing question for the Obama administration, which is hoping its signature domestic policy achievement doesn’t end up as an election [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – General Motors is voluntarily recalling its top-selling Cadillac SRX because of a problem with the right side airbag. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday that the vehicle’s roof-rail airbag on the right side is programmed to switch off during certain [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The oldest bird in the northern hemisphere is raising a chick, puzzling scientists with her longevity. A Laysan albatross named Wisdom that was first tagged by scientists decades ago has been spotted with a chick in a remote coral atoll near northwestern Hawaii. [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The world’s largest furniture retailer stopped selling incandescent lights in the United States on Tuesday, a year before a federal law banning such energy inefficient bulbs takes effect. IKEA has removed incandescent lights from its shelves but will continue to offer 25-watt chandelier [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – U.S. State Department officials are expected to issue a ruling early next year on expanding an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The expanded Keystone pipeline would transport oil from the controversial Canadian oil sands in Alberta to U.S. heavy [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Driver drowsiness accounts for more vehicle accidents than previously thought, according to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Forty-one percent of the nation’s drivers have fallen asleep at some point while at the wheel, the non-profit said in a [...]
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