Health Care

It May Sound Awful, but We Really Do Need to Pay for Human Organs

By Marc Joffe

With dialysis being so expensive, onerous and ultimately fatal, kidney patients and taxpayers would be better off with more donations.
Feds' Big Bust: $1.3 Billion Health Insurance Fraud Takedown

By Rob Garver

On 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...
Where Do You Store Your Medical Info? Apple Wants It to Be Your iPhone

By Christina Farr, CNBC

Imagine 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...
How American Health Care Became a Big, Broken Business

By Yuval Rosenberg

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...
Why You Should Think Twice Before Drinking That Can of Soda

By Barbara Moran

New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.

One Major Obamacare Insurance Company Is Close to Break Even This Year

By Eric Pianin

Despite 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...
New Cancer Drugs Show Promise – and Sky-High Prices

By DEENA BEASLEY, Reuters

Newer 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...
The Billion Dollar Drug for Opioid Victims Has a Problem: It’s Addictive

By Andrew L Yarrow

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...
Pfizer Chief Says Government Efforts to Contain Drug Prices Will Backfire

By Eric Pianin

Ian 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...
Trump’s Big Cuts to Medical Research May Not Get Past Congress

By Eric Pianin

NIH, Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, cancer research, National Institutes of Health

Health Plans for High-Risk Patients Attracting Fewer, Costing More Than Expected

By AMY GOLDSTEIN, The Washington Post

An early feature of the new health-care law that allows people who are already sick to get insurance to cover their medical costs isn't attracting as many customers as expected. In the meantime, in...
States’ Budget Crisis Could Topple Obamacare

By Liz Peek

At a recent meeting of supporters in New York, newly elected Representative Nan Hayworth, R-N.Y., heralded changes she and other rookies envision for the basic operation of Congress. Among them is a...
Reinhardt: Repeal Health Care, Make GOP Cut Costs

By John Greenwald, The Fiscal Times

Princeton University economist Uwe Reinhardt argues that President Obama should let Republicans repeal health care reform and come up with their own proposals, many of which he believes would likely...
Why Republicans Aren’t Serious About the Deficit

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

One of the most far-reaching political consequences of the recent fight over the Affordable Care Act is that it was the final step in the total transformation of the Republican Party into the party...
Health Care Takes a Hit in New Commission Plan

By DREW ALTMAN

Well before we have any clarity on the impact of the election on health reform , the pundits are handicapping the prospects of efforts to make a serious dent in the national debt and deficit. Three...

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