From Crawling to Caring: The Evolution of Clinical Practice with AI and Its Transformative Impact on Healthcare

As clinicians begin to rely more on AI, they will also need to cultivate new skills, particularly around critical interpretation of AI-generated insights, to fully leverage its potential in patient care. The post From Crawling to Caring: The Evolution of Clinical Practice with AI and Its Transformative Impact on Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.

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State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes

I’ve been checking on the progress of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season, which is happening as Congress continues to debate whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums.  The story drew responses from readers facing large cost increases if these enhanced subsidies expire. They wrote…

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Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law

On July 4, President Trump signed the budget reconciliation bill, previously known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” into law. This summary provides background, description, budgetary impact and related information on the health care provisions of the law in four categories: Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

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Gavin Newsom, Early Champion of Single-Payer, Moderates in the Face of Fiscal Limits

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In his earliest days in the governor’s office, Democrat Gavin Newsom huddled with his advisers to consider how to realize a key campaign promise: transforming a healthcare system replete with insurance company intermediaries into the nation’s first state-run single-payer model providing comprehensive coverage to all residents, similar to those in Canada and…

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Disability Bias Complaints Peak as the Office That Investigates Them Is Gutted

Families filed nearly 23,000 federal civil rights complaints against schools in fiscal 2024, the highest number ever.  That includes about 8,400 cases involving allegations of discrimination against students with disabilities, who have struggled to recover academically from the pandemic.  Under federal law, public schools must provide children with disabilities a “free appropriate public education,” to…

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