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Nine states and D.C. expect over 281,000 lawfully present immigrants, refugees and asylees among them, to lose Medicaid in October. CBO's estimate of 100,000 more uninsured by 2034 is a net figure for years out, so the gap depends on how many find other insurance.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a MAHA Institute event that researchers should not need a gatekeeper's permission to study patient health records. Allies offered Nebraska's exchange as the model, though state consent laws limit such access and the Nebraska deal appears never to have been announced.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers has benefit costs per employee rising 8.2% in 2027, the steepest jump since 2003. Two-thirds of large companies plan to raise the employee premium share, and one independent medical practice was quoted 22.5%.
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Clinical forecasts of who will die by suicide run only slightly better than chance and have not improved in 50 years. Paul Nestadt of Johns Hopkins now works on interventions that do not require knowing who is at risk.
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The federal privacy law teams cite reaches hospitals, insurers and their contractors, not the wearables and search logs where most health data now lives, and its de-identification fallback is weaker than officials claim.
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Federal data show nearly 3 million fewer people covered through the exchanges after premiums rose about 30 percent on average. The bill for that arrives at firms that never wrote the policy. Nobody has sized it yet.
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A five-month records hunt across all 64 Louisiana sheriffs produced the first detailed accounting of the carve-out, and the two tests applied to that spending both came from outside the state.
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A health privacy scholar lays out how much patient data sits outside HIPAA entirely, just as federal demands for medical records expand and de-identification gets harder to defend.
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