States look to fight health insurers’ harmful ‘step therapy’ requirements
11.1.16 Insurance companies have become increasingly aggressive in trying to control their costs and protect... Continue reading »
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Ensuring the Affordable Care Act works for people with serious and chronic health conditions
10.31.16 The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the health law, included nondiscrimination protections meant to... Continue reading »
Three ways the American Kidney Fund is adding safeguards to its health insurance premium program, preserving access to care for low-income patients
10.27.16 The American Kidney Fund, a charitable organization that supports Americans with kidney disease, announced... Continue reading »
American consumers to U.S. government: Let charities be charitable
10.26.16 More than 85 percent of 829 people commenting on a recent government request for... Continue reading »
Taking a stand for women with breast cancer and all patients with chronic diseases
10.24.16 In 2010, a large health insurance company created a special algorithm to search its... Continue reading »
Pilot with diabetes fights for fairness in the skies
10.20.16 Pilot Eric Friedman is fighting discrimination by the Federal Aviation Administration, standing up for... Continue reading »
Julianne Malveaux calls on government leaders to provide insurance justice for kidney patients
10.11.16 A relatively new way that health insurance companies are discriminating against the chronically ill... Continue reading »
Study suggests financial assistance makes difference in whether Medicare patients can afford lifesaving leukemia drug
10.10.16 A study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that older cancer patients... Continue reading »
Rare genetic disorder takes life of youngest daughter of late Dave Frohnmayer
10.5.16 As the father of two young women and a longtime admirer of former University... Continue reading »