Morning health reads - Thu, Feb 16 2017

Obamacare's health insurance markets are flirting with financial disaster — and that's before Republicans have had a chance to lay their hands on the law they've vowed for seven years to repeal. The insurance markets, which have been…

Seema Verma is about to become the most powerful woman in Washington you've never heard of. On inauguration day, President Donald Trump nominated Verma to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the sprawling…

healthaffairs.org – Feb 15, 2017

Sean P. Keehan (sean.keehan{at}cms.hhs.gov) is an economist in the Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in Baltimore, Maryland. Devin A. Stone is an economist in the CMS Office of the Actuary. John A. Poisal is…

Shorter Document URL https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2017-03027 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2017-03027 This PDF is the current document as it appeared on Public Inspection on 02/15/2017 at 08:45 am. Public Inspection documents are…

Timmy Morrison was delivered by emergency C-section, weighing in at 3 pounds, 9 ounces. Doctors put him under anesthesia within a week and into surgery within a month. Parts of his stomach sometimes made their way to his lungs. Workers in the…

Over all, researchers estimated that out of every 48 patients who were sent home with a prescription, one would end up using opioids long-term, which researchers defined as at least 180 days of medication over a year. Chronic opioid use…

Robert Kennedy Jr and Robert De Niro held a press conference Wednesday where they discussed the dangers of vaccines and how we've all been duped into pumping our children full of autism, a theory that has been debunked many times over. Not…

atie first spoke with a demon when she was 14. He perched on the edge of her bed, and would persistently urge her to do bad things — like blow up her Arkansas high school. Her parents, Pentecostal Christians, believed her visions made her…

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in what year?* 2009 2010 2012 2011 In tax year 2014, the IRS reported that more than $3 billion in fines were paid by people who did not have coverage. How many people does that represent?* 700,000 2.7…