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  • MassachusettsHealth

    57-year-old woman shocked by $177,000 bill from Mass. Medicaid office for her father’s cancer bill—and threat to go after his home

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • A woman holds an Ozempic needle shot pen in this photograph taken in Warsaw, Poland on 19 November, 2023. German regulator BfArM is considering banning the export of the Ozempic weight loss drug, manufactured by the Danish Novo Nordisk company due to shortages caused by popularity in the United States. Ozempic is commonly prescribed to patience with diabetes or a risk or getting diabetes however Ozempic is also effective as a stand alone weight loss solution. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Health

    Millions of older Americans can’t get weight loss drugs like Wegovy because Medicare won’t pay for them

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Health

    Pharma will pay rebates in 2024 on 48 drugs whose prices rose more than inflation this year: ‘Let’s call this for what it is—it simply is a rip off’

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    The White House threatens to cancel the patents of taxpayer-funded drugs if they’re too expensive for patients to afford

    By Amanda Seitz, Zeke Miller, and others
  • Toddler teacher Janice Bradley blows bubbles with a toddler group at the Life Learning Center – Head Start, in Cincinnati, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. A new plan from the Biden administration could significantly increase salaries for hundreds of low-paid early childhood teachers caring for the country’s poorest children but might also force some centers to cut enrollment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Politics

    Biden administration plans to raise Head Start teacher salaries by up to $10,000, but that could trim the number of kids served without new money

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • A woman squeezing the sample liquid on a test strip while carrying out a Covid-19 rapid self test at home.Health

    Another round of free COVID tests is being made available to U.S. households ahead of a potential holiday surge in cases

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • Children's Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena poses for a photoHealth

    31-year-old mom made 17 calls during pregnancy to get back onto Medicaid. She was reinstated in preterm labor on her hospital bed

    By Amanda Seitz and Kenya Hunter
  • Jessica Bernardo poses for a photo at her home in Dallas, area Thursday, May 18, 2023. More Texas women who were told they could not end pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies or that endangered their health are challenging the state’s restrictive abortion laws. (AP Photo/LM Otero)Health

    More than 12 women who could not end their pregnancies in Texas are suing the state to block its abortion law

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • Rear view of a teenage girl looking out of the window whilst sitting on her bedHealth

    The U.S. surgeon general just declared the latest public health epidemic: Loneliness

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Mylissa Farmer stands for a portrait at her home in Joplin, Mo., on Sept. 28, 2022. In early August, Farmer had to travel to Illinois to terminate her pregnancy when her water broke at 17 weeks and 5 days and put her life in danger. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP, File)Health

    ‘It was dehumanizing. It was terrifying’: 2 hospitals that refused to provide life-saving abortion care broke the law, a federal investigation finds

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • Steve ScalisePolitics

    House Republicans want to strip health insurance from half a million of the poorest Americans with their work requirement proposal

    By Amanda Seitz and The Associated Press
  • Alicia CelayaPolitics

    After a 3-year break, 84 million Americans on Medicaid are suddenly at risk of getting kicked off their insurance

    By Amanda Seitz, Anita Snow, and others
  • FILE – Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 22, 2010. A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)Health

    Abortion providers are scrambling to help patients and after pill restriction from courts: ‘This is going to have a severe, severe impact on access’

    By Laura Ungar, Amanda Seitz, and others
  • FILE -President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. Biden is set to announce that his administration is expanding eligibility for Medicare and the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges to hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. That’s according to two people familiar with the matter who discussed it on condition of anonymity before an announcement on Thursday, April 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)Politics

    President Biden expands health care to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the US as children

    By Zeke Miller, Amanda Seitz, and others
  • Hand of a senior citizen.Politics

    Social Security and Medicare face a major financial shortfall in the next decade that will put millions of seniors in a huge bind

    By Amanda Seitz, Fatima Hussein, and others