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Edy Adams, de Austin, Texas, fue perseguida durante años por cobradores de deudas por una factura de $130.68 por un examen médico que recibió después de haber sido agredida sexualmente en Chicago.

Más de 100 millones de estadounidenses viven acosados por las deudas médicas

June 22, 2022 at 9:36 a.m.

Elizabeth Woodruff tuvo que usar los ahorros de su jubilación y buscar tres trabajos luego de que ella y su esposo fueran demandados por casi $10,000 por un hospital de...

El presidente Joe Biden ha considerado expandir la elegibilidad para Medicaid a las nuevas madres, reclusos e inmigrantes indocumentados, y agregar servicios como alimentos y vivienda.

Biden transforma discretamente la red de seguridad de Medicaid

June 24, 2021 at 4:22 p.m.

La administración Biden está diseñando en silencio una serie de expansiones de Medicaid que pueden reforzar las protecciones para millones de estadounidenses de bajos ingresos y sumar más personas al...

Un peatón pasa frente a Leading Insurance Agency, que ofrece planes bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (también conocida como Obamacare) el 28 de enero de 2021 en Miami, Florida. El presidente Joe Biden firmó una orden ejecutiva para reabrir los mercados de seguros federales de Obamacare del 15 de febrero al 15 de mayo.

Los demócratas dieron un gran impulso a los estadounidenses comprando seguros médicos. No fue barato

March 26, 2021 at 10:48 a.m.

Cuando los demócratas aprobaron este mes una ampliación de dos años de la Affordable Care Act (ACA) en el proyecto de ley de alivio para el COVID-19, muchos celebraron la...

States such as California that have pursued more liberal policies in education, environment and civil rights have seen a swifter rise in life expectancy than more conservative states.

People live longer in blue states than in red states; new study points to impact of state policies

August 4, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

WASHINGTON - Weak environmental protections, safety rules and labor and civil rights protections may be cutting lives short in conservative states and deepening the divide between red and blue states,...

Preocupa la falta de planes de salud por parte de Trump

May 15, 2019 at 11:45 a.m.

Solía haber muchas historias de terror sobre los seguros de salud como la de Charley Butler. Después de que el conductor de camiones de Montana fuera diagnosticado con cáncer de...

Students at Fremont High School in South Los Angeles fill out health surveys and gather information about the Affordable Care Act.

Number of Americans without health insurance grows in Trump’s first year, new figures show

August 19, 2019 at 3:49 a.m.

The number of Americans without health coverage, which declined for years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, shot up in President Trump’s first year in office, according to data...

Obamacare sign-ups quicken as final enrollment deadline approaches in many states

December 17, 2018 at 6:28 p.m.

Millions of Americans are signing up for 2018 coverage through the Affordable Care Act, defying the Trump administration’s hostility to the law and a year-long campaign by congressional Republicans to...

Republicans’ latest plan to repeal Obamacare’s insurance requirement could wreak havoc in some very red states

August 22, 2019 at 1:47 a.m.

The Senate Republican plan to use tax legislation to repeal the federal requirement that Americans have health coverage threatens to derail insurance markets in conservative, rural swaths of the country,...

Obamacare 101: What would the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill do?

August 22, 2019 at 12:58 a.m.

Senate Republicans are rushing to vote by the end of next week on a new bill to roll back the Affordable Care Act. The latest bill — written by Sens....

President Donald Trump speaks at a meeting with administration officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, on the opioid addiction crisis at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Aug. 8, 2017.

Trump emphasizes law enforcement, declines to declare emergency on opioid epidemic

August 22, 2019 at 12:25 a.m.

President Trump emphasized the need for stepped-up law enforcement to combat the nation's opioid problem Tuesday, an approach that is at odds with a report released last week by the...

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