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In WA, thousands are forgoing health insurance this year: Here’s why

by Jessica Fu edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin  Editors’ notes  The GIST Add as preferred source Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ambrose Bittner, 63, didn’t want to go uninsured. But the self-employed travel planner has been without health coverage since the beginning of the year. Bittner, who lives in Issaquah, is one of thousands of […]

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Farmers now owe a lot more for health insurance

by Sarah Boden, Drew Hawkins edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin  Editors’ notes  The GIST Add as preferred source Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like fertilizer and seeds, as well as the

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Going around health insurance

  Illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Axios Ditching health insurers and other intermediaries certainly has become a populist rallying cry among Republicans, but a subtler twist on the idea is already playing out. The big picture: The surge of weight loss drug sales not covered by traditional health insurance has proven the viability of direct-to-consumer health care that bypasses gatekeepers

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Bay Area woman used AI to successfully appeal health insurance claim denial

By Sooji Nam September 3, 2025 / 6:33 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco Two years after a Bay Area woman gave birth, she said she received a nearly $2,000 bill saying her health insurance wouldn’t cover part of her maternity stay. She said she fought it and got nowhere until she decided to use artificial intelligence.

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