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Mashup Score: 3LLS 2024 Advocacy Town Hall - 5 day(s) ago
Cancer treatment is far too expensive. And the costs are highly unpredictable. At our 2024 LLS Advocacy Town we discussed how we can work together in 2024 to…
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Mashup Score: 1LLS | Medigap And Pre-Existing Conditions - 6 day(s) ago
By Esteban Zapiain, advocate and blood cancer s urvivor | April 30, 2024 All patients deserve access to quality, affordable health plans. Fortunately, most insurance cannot use patients’ pre-existing conditions against them. But these protections don’t exist for Medicare Supplement Insurance, known as Medigap. In fact, Medigap is one of the only types of health coverage that can charge patients more, or deny them coverage, due to their age or health status. LLS is advocating for policies that would
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Mashup Score: 3
Likely more than 1 million people in Colorado have some form of medical debt. These seven charts explain how much they owe and where they live.
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Mashup Score: 9
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – Marilyn Zydlo’s son Jimmy was diagnosed with stage three advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020 and had to undergo twelve rounds of chemotherapy. “It left him be…
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Mashup Score: 9States want to make it harder for health insurers to deny care, but firms might evade enforcement • Stateline - 18 day(s) ago
In recent years insurers have ratcheted up their use of prior authorization, which requires doctors to obtain approval before they’ll pay for certain drugs, treatments and procedures.
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Mashup Score: 5
Unsuspecting patients are finding themselves at the mercy of institutions tacking on the bills.
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Mashup Score: 7J.J. and Mason’s story - 20 day(s) ago
In 2019, J.J.’s 9-year-old son Mason was diagnosed with leukemia. While treatment was initially successful, Mason relapsed the following year. He did not sur…
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Mashup Score: 2
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
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Mashup Score: 3
Unsuspecting patients are finding themselves at the mercy of institutions tacking on the bills.
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Mashup Score: 0Patients hate American health care. But presidential candidates aren't talking about it. - 1 month(s) ago
Although health care has not come up much as a campaign issue for the presumptive candidates, people still consider it a major public problem.
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