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It’s open enrollment season, meaning it’s time to review your employer-sponsored plans and benefits. Here are six money-saving benefits you shouldn’t overlook.

It costs over $200,000 to raise a child. Here’s what you need to do get your financial house in order.

Whether you’re shopping for an Advantage Plan or switching from one to another, here are some things to watch for.

While states are still working on their vaccine distribution plans, it’s possible that not all people in the 65-and-older crowd will be prioritized.

If you’re eyeing a Medigap plan, be sure you understand the different coverages and costs of these policies.

The fate of the Affordable Care Act and the health and economic security it provides to millions of people across the country lies in the Supreme Court’s hands. NBCLX welcomed Vanderbilt University’s Jonathan Metzel to explain why a decision that overturns the law would be a disaster for health care in this country.

According to Blue Cross Blue Shield, a repeal of the Affordable Care Act could leave 422,000 people in the Commonwealth without healthcare.

Starting Sunday, millions of Americans who have lost health insurance in an economy shaken by the coronavirus can sign up for taxpayer-subsidized coverage

When 20 members of the Fortuna family were infected with COVID-19 and her uncle fell into a coma, Lizbeth Peña Bonseñor says she felt like “the ground crumbled.” But their problems didn’t end there. The Philadelphia family is one of the millions of Latino families without health insurance. NBC Philadelphia spoke to the Fortunas about how their struggle is...

COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically

About 2.5 million more working-age Americans were uninsured last year, even before the coronavirus pandemic struck

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a towering advocate of liberal causes on the U.S. Supreme Court and her death leaves a void that President Trump is likely to seek to fill with an ideological opposite. David Corn of Mother Jones and former U.S. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal joined LX News to explain how health insurance and reproductive rights for...

Do you hate politics? We get it! So we dusted off our game of Operation to help explain why you should care how the 2020 election will affect health care policy — and how that policy will ultimately affect your health and your wallet.

In her first television role, actress Abigail Shapiro plays dark superhero Dorothy Spinner in DC Comics’ “Doom Patrol.” She joined LX News to talk about season 2 as well as her advocacy for insurance coverage of rare disorders, including cleidocranial dysplasia, the condition that has affected the development of her bones and teeth.

Ninety-three percent of people in Massachusetts who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic are now without health insurance, according to a study by Families USA, a non-partisan consumer group.

Pharmaceutical giant Gilead says it plans to charge at least $2,300 for a single treatment course of Remdesivir, a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill coronavirus patients.

Public health expert Ogbonnaya Omenka explains why the link between health and wealth in U.S. society puts minority communities at greater risk of dying from Covid-19 and other public health issues.

A new poll suggests Americans have little interest in big changes to health care as a result of the coronavirus pandemic

Many laid-off workers who lost health insurance in the coronavirus shutdown soon face the first deadlines to qualify for fallback coverage under the Affordable Care Act

Under ordinary circumstances, the opportunity to make changes to workplace health plans and flexible spending accounts happens only once a year.