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Frustration Runs Deep For Customers Forced To Change Marketplace Plans Routinely

(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News) Andrea Schankman’s three-year relationship with her insurer, Coventry Health Care of Missouri, has

(By Ed Silverman for ST A T) H ow much attention do people pay to the risk information for prescription

(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) After a listening tour and nearly 4,000 public comments, CMS released the final

(By Ed Silverman for ST A T) D rug makers may offer rebates to payers, but health plans continue to

(By Taunya English for NPR) Yana Shapiro is a partner at a Philadelphia law firm, has an exhausting travel schedule

(By Erin Ross for NPR) Digital gizmos can monitor your heart, whether it’s a wrist-worn fitness tracker or a smartphone

The long-term dilemma faced by the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds is not a self-correcting situation, and most Americans

(By Henry A . Waxman and Bill Corr for ST A T) S uperbugs, disease-causing microbes that have mutated to

(By Rebecca Robbins for ST A T) T he insulin market, dominated by old drugs that have skyrocketed in price

(By Rina Shalkh-Lasko for NPR) Many countries think of TB as a disease of the past and this lack of