Stories tagged: "healthcare costs"


Short-term insurance plans offer limited coverage, can deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and trick consumers into buying products that provide “little or no coverage when they need it most,” according to the White House. (Photo via Shutterstock)
Biden Cracks Down on ‘Junk’ Health Insurance Plans That ‘Exploit’ Americans

Short-term plans offer limited coverage, can deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and trick consumers into buying products that provide “little or no coverage when they need it most."

OCTOBER 27, 2014. TUCSON, AZ.  Karen Slone (cq), age 53, waits on a Tucson bus bench near her apartment.  A special boot protects her foot after radical surgery at Tucson Medical Center.   Slone lost part of the foot to a diabetic induced infection.  Periodic doctor checkups that might have caught the infection had lapsed after she lost her health insurance and couldn't qualify for Arizona Medicaid.  (Photo by Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Over 100,000 Arizonans Dropped From Medicaid Due to Filing Errors

The cuts in Medicaid enrollment are the first wave of reductions that AHCCCS has projected could reach 600,000 by the end of the year.

FILE - In this Thursday, April 16, 2007 file photo, X-ray technician Martina Rosenow, right, and assistant medical technician Marianne Warnholz, demonstrate the mammogram screening program in Berlin. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File)
OPINION: We Depend on Preventative Health Care. Don’t Take it Away.

A decision by a single federal judge in Texas recently ripped away no-cost preventive health care from over 150 million Americans.

Dr. Ricky Ochoa and his mom (Photo courtesy of Ochoa)
‘It Was Taxing to Say the Least’: One Arizona Family’s Experience With America’s Caregiving Crisis

Dr. Ricky Ochoa of Yuma struggled to afford care for his mom after she was diagnosed with dementia.

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OPINION: Don’t Get Dropped—Make Sure You Renew Your Medicaid Health Insurance with AHCCCS

If you are one of the 2.5 million Arizonans who gets your health insurance through Medicaid, you will need to renew your coverage this year.

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File
10 Ways the Federal Government Delivered for American Workers and Families This Year

Under Democratic control, the federal government acted to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs; fight climate change and lower energy costs; invest in gun safety and mental healthcare; and implement a generational investment in American industry, manufacturing, and infrastructure.

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The Republican Party’s Economic Agenda Includes Tax Cuts for Corporations and Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

Republicans have said they want to extend the Trump tax cuts, which mostly benefited billionaires and corporations; cut spending on Social Security and Medicare; and repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which lowered the cost of prescription drugs and raised taxes on corporations.