Under the new law, people whose unreimbursed medical expenses exceed 7.5 percent of their adjusted gross income can claim a deduction for those expenses in 2017 and 2018.
The designation allowed public health officials to begin tracking overdose data in real time and set in motion a multiagency effort to combat the epidemic. But some public health advocates doubt it will translatE into more help for people on the street using drugs.
Americans life expectancy at birth declined for the second year in a row in 2016 as the nation grappled with an opioid crisis, the first time thats happened in more than half a century.
If the individual major medical market stays as unpredictable in 2018 as it's been in 2017, and some of that upheaval spills over into other health insurance sectors, what then?
In all the ways that Congress and the Donald Trump administration have tried to depress participation in the Affordable Care Act individual markets, they are actively trying to make the nation worse, in hopes that some good will come of it eventually.
A day after President Donald Trump said the Affordable Care Act has been repealed, officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange in 2018.
A central plank of the $67.5 billion merger of CVS and Aetna is transforming CVS's stores into health hubs where consumers can get care, pick up their drugs, buy some milk, and stay out of the hospital.