Latest California Healthline Stories
One Foot Out the Door, Medicare Chief Launches His Own Twitter Barrage
Acting administrator Andy Slavitt is taking to social media to defend the Affordable Care Act from GOP dismantling.
21 Medicare Health Plans Warned To Fix Provider Directory Errors
Federal officials release names of insurers who ranked poorly in a recent review of their online directories’ accuracy.
Large Employer Health Plans Could Also See Some Impacts From Obamacare Overhaul
With the future of Obamacare on the line, workers might want to consider what benefits they have gained through the landmark law.
6 Lesser-Known Obamacare Provisions That Could Evaporate
Some lesser known provisions of the health law — things like calorie counts, lifetime limits and breast-feeding support — could be rolled back by repeal.
Six U.S. Senators Confronting Trump’s HHS Cabinet Pick Own Health Care Stocks, Too
Donald Trump’s pick to run HHS has been under fire for trading health care stocks but at least six Senators at his confirmation hearings also own such stocks.
Budget Scorekeepers Say GOP Plan Would Raise The Number Of Uninsured By 32M
An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office offers an estimate of the effects of the repeal plan offered by congressional Republican in 2015, which may be a blueprint for efforts currently underway to overhaul the health law.
Sky-High Prices For Orphan Drugs Slam American Families And Insurers
Orphan drugs for rare diseases have helped or saved hundreds of thousands of patients like 2-year-old Luke Whitbeck, but families and insurers are picking up the astronomical cost.
Drugmakers Manipulate Orphan Drug Rules To Create Prized Monopolies
Drugmakers have brought almost 450 orphan drugs to market and collected rich incentives but nearly a third of those products aren’t new or were repurposed multiple times, an investigation shows.
Orphan Drugs Interactive Database
Check out all the drugs the FDA has approved to treat rare diseases. You can search by brand name, or by disease, and see familiar names that were first sold on the mass market or all the drugs that won FDA approval to treat more than one rare disease.
GOP Vows To Defund Planned Parenthood. Reality Makes That Hard.
Ending federal support of the group that helps supply women’s reproductive health care could complicate health law overhaul efforts.