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Overall, digestive conditions generate $140 billion in health care costs each year, more than heart disease, trauma and mental health.

Doctors, researchers and patient advocates are cautiously optimistic about the liquid biopsy test that screens for more than 50 types of cancers, however, 62% of people who got positive results in a Lancet study didn't have cancer.

All employer plans are free to cover expenses the employer determines should be covered, however, fully insured plans will generally be forced to cover treatments mandated by state laws, while self-funded plans have more leeway.

Among companies that didn't cover abortion services or had limited coverage, 3% reduced abortion coverage, and, of the large companies that generally covered abortion, only 12% expanded coverage, says a KFF survey.

The survey found more than half of Americans could not pay off an unexpected $5,000 health care out-of-pocket expense.

Even before Rite Aid filed bankruptcy a few weeks ago, CVS and Walgreens had already announced store closures over the past two years, all of which will leave millions of consumers without easy access to their medications.