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When 20 members of the Fortuna family were infected with COVID-19 and her uncle fell into a coma, Lizbeth Peña Bonseñor says she felt like “the ground crumbled.” But their problems didn’t end there. The Philadelphia family is one of the millions of Latino families without health insurance. NBC Philadelphia spoke to the Fortunas about how their struggle is...

COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically

About 2.5 million more working-age Americans were uninsured last year, even before the coronavirus pandemic struck

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a towering advocate of liberal causes on the U.S. Supreme Court and her death leaves a void that President Trump is likely to seek to fill with an ideological opposite. David Corn of Mother Jones and former U.S. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal joined LX News to explain how health insurance and reproductive rights for...

Do you hate politics? We get it! So we dusted off our game of Operation to help explain why you should care how the 2020 election will affect health care policy — and how that policy will ultimately affect your health and your wallet.

In her first television role, actress Abigail Shapiro plays dark superhero Dorothy Spinner in DC Comics’ “Doom Patrol.” She joined LX News to talk about season 2 as well as her advocacy for insurance coverage of rare disorders, including cleidocranial dysplasia, the condition that has affected the development of her bones and teeth.

Pharmaceutical giant Gilead says it plans to charge at least $2,300 for a single treatment course of Remdesivir, a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill coronavirus patients.

Public health expert Ogbonnaya Omenka explains why the link between health and wealth in U.S. society puts minority communities at greater risk of dying from Covid-19 and other public health issues.

A new poll suggests Americans have little interest in big changes to health care as a result of the coronavirus pandemic

Many laid-off workers who lost health insurance in the coronavirus shutdown soon face the first deadlines to qualify for fallback coverage under the Affordable Care Act

Under ordinary circumstances, the opportunity to make changes to workplace health plans and flexible spending accounts happens only once a year.

When asked what would happen to the millions of uninsured Americans unable to afford coronavirus testing and treatment, the Trump administration had no clear answer Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has told Americans that health insurers won’t make people share the cost of COVID-19 treatment.

The new year often starts harshly for people with high-deductible health insurance, but there are places to find help. Many of those deductibles reset Jan. 1, forcing patients to pay thousands of dollars for care before most coverage starts. Such a financial hit can be brutal, especially for patients with cancer or a chronic condition.

As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody.” Three years later, Trump still hasn’t managed to repeal and replace his predecessor’s big legislative achievement. Now, as the 2020 campaign heats up, Democrats are intent...

Retired coal miners and longtime opponents of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health plans are eyeing big wins as top congressional leaders and the Trump White House close in on a deal on a government-wide spending bill. The bill would also increase the age nationwide for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21.

People will get more time to sign up for “Obamacare” health insurance, the Trump administration announced Monday, following a spate of computer glitches over the weekend. The new HealthCare.gov deadline is 3 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement. Coverage takes effect Jan. 1.

Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system. “What about the little guys that work in the insurance business,...

A U.S. judge in Oregon on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking a Trump administration proclamation that would require immigrants to show proof of health insurance to get a visa. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon said in a written opinion that the proclamation could not take effect while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality makes its way through the courts....

Under federal law, companies are not allowed to use your genetic information against you for things like health insurance or a job. But that protection does not apply to things like life insurance or long-term care insurance, and the laws are constantly changing.