Health Insurance
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Exeter Hospital patients say care declined after merger. CEO says ‘we’ve made mistakes’
Exeter Hospital patients say they are scrambling for answers about care after recent service cuts and are questioning the benefits of Exeter Health Resources merger with Beth Israel Lahey Health.
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It’s 2026 and you’re uninsured. Now what?
Health policy changes in Washington will ripple through the country, resulting in millions of Americans losing their Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage and becoming uninsured. But there are still ways to find care.
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OPINION: 3 policy decisions from 2025 that will shape the future of New Hampshire
As 2025 ended, many Granite Staters felt the same things. Groceries cost more. Housing costs and property taxes are up. Health care is harder to afford and access. Too many of our neighbors feel it is a challenge to survive, let alone thrive. It’s easy to blame inflation or say, “That’s just how things are…
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Opinion: This New Year, Congress Must Fix Our Country’s Health Care Crisis
I’m a Kinship Navigator and Community Resource Specialist at The River Center Family and Community Resource Center. We’re a small nonprofit serving families and individuals across ten rural New Hampshire towns — about 3% of the state. In my role, I spend thousands of hours each year supporting the communities I love. Every hour I…
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Concerns grow for NH older adults as ACA premiums spike
Advocates for older adults in New Hampshire worry many will go without health insurance due to skyrocketing premiums under the Affordable Care Act.
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Seacoast-area nursing homes face damaging funding cuts: Williams
It had seemed nursing home care was spared the carnage afflicting many other areas of the two-year state budget that took effect on July 1. Despite tight revenue, New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte and state senators made it a point of rejecting House-passed Medicaid cuts. And the appropriation for nursing home care represented a modest increase from the prior state…
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Why health insurance is so expensive this year — and what you can do about it.
This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal and state Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
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So your insurance dropped your doctor. Now what?
Nationwide, contract disputes are common, with more than 650 hospitals having public spats with an insurer since 2021. They could become even more common as hospitals brace for about $1 trillion in cuts to federal health care spending prescribed by President Donald Trump’s signature legislation signed into law in July.
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OPINION: All Granite Staters Deserve Real Access to Preventive Health Care
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, we are reminded that awareness alone is not enough – especially for Black women, who experience higher rates of this disease. Despite pink-ribbon promises from state leaders, these words ring hollow this October as many of the same legislators voted to advance massive funding cuts to…
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With health care tax credits set to expire, pain sets in for one New Hampshire business
Last week, W.H. Bagshaw, a metal parts manufacturer based in Hudson, found out that its health insurance policies with Anthem would increase approximately 38% in 2026. Anthem specifically cited the expiration of health care tax credits at the center of the current federal government shutdown.
