News 2017
Obamacare Shopping Is Trickier Than Ever. Here's A Cheat Sheet
Healthcare can be complicated
Health care is complicated. Shopping for an individual health plan just got even more so, with President Donald Trump's decision last month to block $7 billion in Affordable Care Act subsidies.
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Brokers Are Reluctant Players In A Most Challenging ACA Open-Enrollment Season
An ACA health insurance broker with clients.
Lee Nathans, like insurance brokers in many states, expects to be crazy busy for the next several weeks, fielding calls from "people who are not going to be happy."
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House Tax Bill Would Scrap Deduction For Medical Expenses
House tax plan proposes to eliminate medical expense deduction
The tax bill unveiled by Republicans in the House would not, as had been rumored, eliminate the tax penalty for failure to have health insurance. But it would eliminate a decades-old deduction for people with very high medical costs.
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How to Turn Back the Threat of HCV
Corinna Dan, R.N., M.P.H., Viral Hepatitis Policy Advisor, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Although Black Americans are making gains in the fight against HIV, we are not doing nearly as well when it comes to hepatitis. That was the message conveyed at a Brown Bag Lunch Webinar hosted by the Black AIDS Institute in October 2017.
Reducing Bias and Increasing PrEP
Sarah Calabrese, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, George Washington University
A study published in the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs in April 2017 indicates that physicians who prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) do not see an increase in risky sexual behaviors in their patients.