The nation in the next few years faces many important decisions about health care — most of which have little to do with the controversial federal health law.
Kaiser Health News
Is Virginia Health Insurer’s Decision To Drop Bronze Plans An Omen?
Bronze plans provide the least generous coverage of the four tiers on insurance marketplaces, paying 60 percent of benefits, on average, compared with 70 percent for the more popular silver plans.
Even As Birth Rates Fall, Teens Say They Are Getting Less Sex Education
Despite the lack of formal teaching, teenage pregnancy rates have declined for more than two decades and are now at historic lows. Racial disparities remain, however, and few teens use highly effective long-acting contraceptives such as intrauterine devices or hormonal implants.
HHS Acts To Help More Ex-Inmates Get Medicaid
Administration officials moved Thursday to improve low Medicaid enrollment for emerging prisoners, urging states to start signups before release and expanding eligibility to thousands of former inmates in halfway houses near the end of their sentences.
Political Gridlock Blocks Missouri Database For Fighting Drug Abuse
In the battle against America’s surging opioid drug addiction, 49 states, the District of Columbia and even Guam have all implemented some kind of PMDP. Missouri is the only state that hasn’t.
Study: Primary Care Doctors Often Don’t Help Patients Manage Depression
Although primary care doctors frequently see patients with depression, they typically do less to help those patients manage it than they do for patients with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma or congestive heart failure, a recent study found.