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Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Dec 23, 2025 8:04 am - A new Department of Health and Human Services report reveals Medicaid programs made over $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died.
Schaumburg family launches campaign to retain access to daughter’s medical marijuana

By Eric Peterson
Dec 22, 2025 5:12 pm - A Schaumburg family whose daughter inspired Illinois’ Ashley’s Law in 2018 has launched a Change.org campaign to create a legal path for her to receive across state lines the medical marijuana patches that have kept her seizure-free for eight years.
How the end of extra Affordable Care Act subsidies could affect you

By Paige Winfield Cunningham and Peter Whoriskey
Dec 22, 2025 11:54 am - Extra subsidies that made Affordable Care Act plans more affordable for millions of Americans for the past five years are all but guaranteed to vanish on New Year’s Day.
Health care among Americans’ biggest priorities for 2026, according to a new AP-NORC poll

By LINLEY SANDERS, SIMRAN PARWANI, THOMAS BEAUMONT and MIKE CATALINI
Dec 22, 2025 10:26 am - Health care is a growing concern for Americans, according to a new AP-NORC poll that asked people to share their top priorities for the government to address in 2026.
Illinois libraries step into life-saving role as new law expands access to Narcan

By Eric Peterson
Dec 20, 2025 11:15 am - Some Illinois public libraries will be required to stock drugs reversing opioid overdoses and train staff members in their use on Jan. 1, though many others without the same mandate are taking the opportunity to join the effort voluntarily.
Trump announces lower drug price deals with 9 pharmaceutical companies

By SALLY HO
Dec 19, 2025 6:57 pm - U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Medicaid drug prices to match what they charged in other developed countries.
Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted but Palestinians there still face starvation, experts say

By SAM MEDNICK
Dec 19, 2025 7:41 am - The spread of famine has been averted in the Gaza Strip, but the situation remains critical with the entire Palestinian territory still facing starvation, the world's leading authority on food crises said Friday.
HHS to revoke funding from hospitals offering youth gender transition care

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Dec 18, 2025 7:43 pm - The Trump administration is moving to broadly curtail gender transition care for young people, proposing Thursday to eject medical providers from major federal health insurance programs if they provide services including hormone therapy or procedures such as mastectomies to children and teenagers.
Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BILL BARROW
Dec 18, 2025 1:34 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.
‘A good thing for people’: Palatine Township levies first tax for community mental health board

By Steve Zalusky
Dec 18, 2025 1:03 pm - Palatine Township trustees this week approved a $1.65 million tax levy for its community mental health board.

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