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Nevada wants $11.3M for Children’s Health Insurance Program

The state has requested $11.3 million in federal funding to continue the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers more than 27,500 Nevada kids, while Congress decides if it will renew funding for the decades-old program.

In Las Vegas and U.S., undocumented bear brunt of health care gap

As lawmakers debate how to make health insurance affordable and widely available, undocumented immigrants continue to inhabit a netherworld where health care is often available only in emergency rooms and nonprofit clinics.

 
Trump to nominate ex-drug executive as health secretary

President Donald Trump on Monday said he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines.

 
Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency

President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency Thursday in a packed East Room ceremony that highlighted his caring side.

Nevada commits more than $1M to fight opioid epidemic

The state’s Interim Finance Committee on Thursday approved more than $1 million in expenditures for a five-point opioid initiative intended to fight abuse of prescription painkillers in Nevada.

Bipartisan deal to fix Obamacare may be in trouble

A bipartisan deal from two senators to stabilize Obamacare by restoring subsidies to health insurers ran into trouble on Wednesday with President Donald Trump sending mixed signals and the speaker of the House indicating no interest in taking it up.

Federal judge refuses to halt diabetes drug transparency law

U.S. District Judge James Mahan declines to issue injunction in lawsuit brought by pharmaceutical industry to keep new Nevada law forcing additional disclosure on drug pricing from taking effect.

 
Trump to stop subsidies to health insurers

In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will “immediately” halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been trying to unravel for months.