Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs
By Marc JoffeWith dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
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Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown
By Rob GarverOn the same day that Republican members of the Senate released a pair of bills aimed at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Justice highlighted a problem with the...
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Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone
By Christina Farr, CNBCImagine turning to your iPhone for all your health and medical information — every doctor's visit, lab test result, prescription and other health information, all available in a snapshot on your...
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How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business
Who’s to blame for the sad state of the American health care system in 2017? The short answer, as Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal details in her new book “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big...
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Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda
By Barbara MoranNew research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.
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One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year
By Eric PianinDespite high premiums and diminished consumer choices that might deter consumers from enrolling in Obamacare, a new financial analysis concludes that the individual health insurance market has shaken...
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New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices
By DEENA BEASLEY, ReutersNewer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year. The drugs' success...
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The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order earlier this month, declaring the state’s opioid addiction crisis a state of emergency, is yet another example of the state’s leadership in addressing a...
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Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire
By Eric PianinIan C. Read, Pfizer’s hard-edged, Scottish-born CEO and chairman, has been unapologetic about his company’s dubious pricing practices. Last week, he gave no ground on the larger question about...
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Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress
By Eric PianinNIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health
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Obamacare Fallout: Cut Worker Hours or Drop Coverage
By Bertha Coombs, CNBCFor large retail and restaurant chains, the big unknown in the year ahead is how much more they'll pay for health coverage. Employers with 50 or more workers who put in 30 hours a week will be...
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5 Health Care Leaders on SOTU Guest List
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health NewsFive of the 24 people invited to sit near First Lady Michelle Obama at tonight’s State of the Union have strong health care connections. They include a governor, a business owner and a beneficiary of...
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Hospice Bankruptcy: Is This An Alarming New Trend?
By Randy Dotinga, Kaiser Health NewsThe financial woes facing San Diego Hospice, which has slashed its workforce and patient load and has filed for bankruptcy, might not be isolated. Hospices nationwide are under intense scrutiny from...
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Christie's Big Chance to Help Cut Obesity Costs
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesChris Christie, the N.J. governor, can dish all he wants about his weight – but he doesn’t like it when others do, even physicians who once took care of U.S. presidents. On Wednesday, Dr. Connie...
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Raise the Price of Booze, Watch Deaths Drop
By Kate Kelland, ReutersIncreasing the minimum price of alcohol by 10 percent can lead to immediate and significant drops in drink-related deaths and may also have long-term beneficial health effects, according to a study...