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Breaking Down Trump’s $50 Billion Rural Health Fund
Rural health experts dig into the Trump administration’s effort to transform rural health care.
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Open Enrollment
The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder
Higher premiums and penalties have made shopping for Obamacare plans more confusing this year. Navigator programs, a resource for consumers, lost about 90% of federal funding across more than two dozen states earlier this year.…
What Happens if Obamacare Subsidies Shrink?
Excerpts of a live conversation with two top health economists about how extra federal support has helped millions of Americans access health insurance, and what would happen if that aid went away.
Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess
People shopping for Medicare coverage struggle with too many choices, too little help and an alarming amount of deception.
Artificial Intelligence
Lots of Hospitals Are Using AI. Few Are Testing For Bias
New research sheds light on how many hospitals are using artificial intelligence, what they’re using AI for, and what it means for patients and policymakers.
Patients Push to Shape the Future of AI
One advocate’s vision for the crucial role patients must play in the growth of health care AI.
How Patient Privacy Could Hurt AI
Why one expert says too much focus on privacy could make health care AI biased and less effective.
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