Health Headlines for Thursday, January 21
State fines HealthNow $750,000 for insurance law violation
Buffalo Business News
State insurance regulators have fined Buffalo-based HealthNow New York $750,000 for improperly denying coverage to small groups of fewer than five members.
Sanders Health Plan Would Be More Generous Than Medicare
New York Times
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says his plan for a government-run health care system from cradle to grave is like Medicare for all.
NY launching studies of marijuana compound as severe epilepsy treatment
Syracuse Post Standard
State-sponsored studies of an experimental marijuana compound to treat severe forms of epilepsy will soon begin at five New York hospitals.
How the Obamacare Debate Sharpened the Hillary-Bernie Divide
WNYC News
In the run-up to last Sunday’s Democratic debate, the last face-to-face discussion between the candidates before Iowa’s caucuses and New Hampshire’s primary, the Hillary Clinton campaign went from “What, me worry?” to DEFCON 5 at a head-spinning velocity.
Sanders’s Health-Care Plan Is Missing Its Price Tag
Bloomberg View
So Bernie Sanders has a health-care plan. It sounds wonderful. It covers everything, from dental to long-term care.
Kentucky’s Bizarre Attack on Health Reform
New York Times
Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky is dismantling the state’s highly successful exchange on which people buy private health insurance policies or enroll in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
Exclusive: Oscar Health Raising Giant Funding Round led by Fidelity
Fortune
Oscar Health, the health insurance startup with more than 125,000 members, is in the midst of raising new financing that could value it at upwards of $3 billion, Fortune has learned from multiple sources.