Nevadans flocked to the state’s online health insurance exchange ahead of a midnight Monday enrollment deadline to at least begin the signup process. At midday, exchange officials said as many as 5,700 individual users were accessing the website at one time.
A flood of last-minute applicants rushed to sign up for health insurance on Monday, deadline day for President Barack Obama’s health care law, with more than 100,000 people at a time using the fragile system. After early stumbles, the website is up and running again.
It’s happening increasingly in American life — men acting as caregivers.
A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.
The city of Henderson envisions itself becoming a nationally recognized bicycle community, the type that lures tourist dollars as a destination.
The health district board approved a $61 million budget for 2015 on Thursday. This includes budget cuts of up to $6 million, which could equate to 50 to 60 layoffs, board Vice Chair and Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers said.
Religious leaders say Pope Francis has quietly started a new era in relations between the Roman Catholic Church and rival Pentecostals. And he did it with just an iPhone and a video greeting.
Larry Basich’s health insurance nightmare has ended. Insurer Health Plan of Nevada said this morning that it has agreed to cover Basich retroactively to Jan. 1, concluding a four-month saga during which he ran up more than $400,000 in uncovered medical bills.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are close to striking plea agreements for imprisoned Dr. Dipak Desai and his former clinic manager, Tonya Rushing, in the federal health care fraud case stemming from the Las Vegas Valley hepatitis C outbreak, the attorneys said Wednesday.
Pope Francis on Wednesday permanently removed a German bishop from his Limburg diocese after his 31 million-euro ($43-million) new residence complex caused an uproar among the faithful. Francis had temporarily expelled Monsignor Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst from Limburg in October pending a church inquiry.
