Tag: Robert King

In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, Enrollment counselor Vue Yang, left, goes over some of the health insurance plans available to Laura San Nicolas, center, accompanied by her daughter, Geena, 17, while enrolling for health insurance at Sacramento Covered in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Blue Cross wants 35 percent increase in N.C. premiums

Robert King · August 7, 2015 3:21 pm

JohnÂ Kasich has used the Reagan defense before, most notably back in 2013 when he decided to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. (AP Photo)Â

Kasich’s Medicaid defense: Reagan did it

Robert King · August 7, 2015 6:25 am

Top GOP contenders Jeb Bush and Donald Trump were put on the spot to explain their positions on abortion during the first GOP primary debate. (AP Photo)Â

Bush and Trump under fire over abortion

Robert King · August 7, 2015 3:21 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker listens during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump praises Canadian healthcare

Robert King · August 7, 2015 2:27 am

Feds vulnerable to cyber attacks: House lawmakers

Robert King · August 6, 2015 9:40 pm

Most middle and high schools start around 8 a.m. or earlier, although scientists say that should be 8:30. (iStock photo)

CDC: Kids go to school too early

Robert King · August 6, 2015 5:00 pm

A doctor speaks with a patient.

4 factors affecting your 2016 healthcare bill

Robert King · August 6, 2015 4:01 am

Half the nation's doctors don't like Obamacare-mandated penalties for hospital readmissions and poor healthcare quality, a new survey finds. (iStock Photo)

Some doctors don’t like Obamacare quality penalties: Survey

Robert King · August 5, 2015 2:22 pm

A patient is taken to the operating theatre in the recently opened Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital on February 7, 2011 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Obamacare program unfairly penalizes safety-net hospitals: Senators

Robert King · August 5, 2015 4:01 am

The next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. Instead of trying to directly kill germs, the new goal is to disable bacteria's ability to sicken in the first place. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Teamwork needed to save 37,000 lives from superbugs

Robert King · August 4, 2015 7:30 pm

The FDA warned hospitals Friday that the Hospira infusion pump series called Symbiq is susceptible to a cyberattack and they should immediately switch to another pump. (AP Photo)Â

Feds warn life-saving pumps could be hacked

Robert King · August 4, 2015 4:01 am

A figure is printed in a 3D printer at the International Consumer Electronics Show Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo)Â

FDA approves first 3D-printed drug

Robert King · August 3, 2015 8:50 pm