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Hyperkalemia occurs when your blood potassium levels are too high, although according to the Cleveland Clinic, this accounts for only 2 to 3 percent of the U.S. population.
Anjalee Khemlani is the senior health reporter at Yahoo Finance, covering all things pharma, insurance, care services, digital health, PBMs, and health policy and politics. That includes GLP-1s ...
Over the past 30 years, the biggest health care companies have become truly huge: They now make up eight of the 25 biggest companies in the U.S. by revenue, up from zero in 1995.
According to a study by a pro-health reform group published February 11, the nation's largest five health insurance companies posted a 56 percent gain in 2009 profits over 2008. The insurers (Anthem, UnitedHealth, Cigna, Aetna and Humana) cover the majority of Americans with health insurance. [152]
Of the 26.2 million foreign immigrants living in the US in 1998, 62.9% were non-US citizens. In 1997, 34.3% of non-US citizens living in the US did not have health insurance coverage opposed to the 14.2% of native-born Americans who do not have health insurance coverage.
A study examining the effects of health insurance cost-sharing more generally found that chronically ill patients with higher co-payments sought less care for both minor and serious symptoms while no effect on self-reported health status was observed. The authors concluded that the effect of cost sharing should be carefully monitored. [28]
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A health insurance policy is a insurance contract between an insurance provider (e.g. an insurance company or a government) and an individual or his/her sponsor (that is an employer or a community organization). The contract can be renewable (annually, monthly) or lifelong in the case of private insurance.