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The Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index, published Monday, found that the uninsured rate among U.S. adults was 11.7 percent in the second three months of this year, compared with a record low of 10.9 percent at the end of last year. Though small, the change was statistically significant, survey analysts noted.

Survey: U.S. uninsured up by 2M this year as gains erode

June 3, 2018 at 8:24 a.m.

The number of U.S. adults without health insurance has grown by some 2 million this year, according to a major new survey that finds recent coverage gains beginning to erode....

Paul Wright shows a picture of himself in the hospital after a near fatal overdose in 2015 at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown, Ohio, on June 15, 2017. Republican efforts to roll back Obamacare are colliding with the opioid epidemic. Cutbacks would hit hard in states that are deeply affected by the addiction crisis and struggling to turn the corner.

Republicans’ Medicaid rollback collides with opioid epidemic

August 21, 2019 at 11:50 p.m.

The Republican campaign to roll back Barack Obama's health care law is colliding with America's opioid epidemic. Medicaid cutbacks would hit hard in states deeply affected by the addiction crisis...

Trump health pick Seema Verma says maternity coverage should be optional

June 5, 2018 at 10:15 p.m.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead the government's major health insurance programs says maternity coverage should be optional for patients. Indiana health care consultant Seema Verma tells the Senate Finance...

The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act, targeting enrollment periods and IRS enforcement of the its tax mandate.

Trump administration ushers in changes to Obama health law

August 21, 2019 at 10:12 p.m.

The Trump administration took steps Wednesday intended to help calm jittery insurance companies and make tax compliance with former President Barack Obama's health law less burdensome for some people. But...

Diabetes drug risk spurs alert

August 21, 2021 at 2:27 p.m.

A widely prescribed drug to treat Type 2 diabetes substantially increases the risk of heart attacks and death from cardiovascular disease, according to a study released Monday that critics say...

FDA: Breast implants OK

August 21, 2021 at 4:29 a.m.

The government on Friday rescinded a 14-year ban on silicone gel implants for cosmetic breast enhancement, a decision praised by some for providing women with a better product but criticized...

Health bill heads higher

August 21, 2021 at 7:27 a.m.

Health care will account for one in five dollars spent in the U.S. by 2015, and health savings accounts are not likely to be popular enough to help much in...

Rumsfeld is in; Thompson is moving out

August 19, 2021 at 1:20 p.m.

The changing of the guard in the Bush administration continued Friday with the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. But officials said one of the most prominent...

U.S. pares down immigration board

August 21, 2021 at 2:20 a.m.

Five of the 16 members of the nation's highest immigration appeals board have been asked to find other jobs, congressional and legal sources said, in what critics termed a "purge"...

Protective tiles efficient, yet fragile

August 22, 2019 at 5:18 p.m.

The fragile thermal tiles that protect space shuttles on their fiery reentries to Earth's atmosphere are extremely effective in dissipating heat, but they also have a history of problems that...

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