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Gov. Roy Cooper unveils plan to incentivize hospitals to relieve patients of medical debt RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina state government is seeking to rid potentially billions in medical debt from low- and middle-income residents by offering a financial carrot for hospitals to take unpaid bills off the books and to implement policies supporting future patients. Democratic Gov. Roy

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt named a new chief health and mental health adviser on Friday. Ellen Buettner will take on the role in addition to serving as chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Stitt said in a news release. As CEO of the Health Care Authority, Buettner leads one of the state’s largest appropriated agencies with responsibilities for administering a

Senate Republicans’ new Obamacare replacement plan softens the edges of the House bill that President Trump reportedly called “mean,” offering more generous tax subsidies for the poor to buy insurance and extending the lifespan of President Obama’s Medicaid expansion.

Unlike the average college student, who spends their university years studying to pass the next midterm or, more realistically, planning their next alcohol-drenched bacchanalia, Paul Ryan stayed focused on loftier goals: denying health-care coverage for millions of low-income and elderly Americans. Or so he implied while defending his current effort to roll back Medicaid, via his unpopular