Health Care

Here’s How Much More Your Health Insurance Will Cost Next Year

By Beth Braverman

Consumers who get health insurance through their jobs won’t see rate hikes in the double digits like those on the Obamacare exchanges, but they’ll still see the cost of health care go up.
Will Health Savings Accounts Be the New 401(k)?

By Mark Miller, Reuters

If HSAs are to play a major role financing healthcare, they will need to be more robust and less expensive - and more transparent to consumers shopping for the best deals.
New Republican Plan to Repeal Obamacare Gets an Ugly Score From CBO

By Rob Garver

The latest act in the legislative Kabuki surrounding Republican attempts to do away with the Affordable Care Act was the release by the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday of the Obamacare Repeal...
Most Patients Can’t Pay a $500 Hospital Bill

By Angelica LaVito, CNBC

More than two-thirds of patients aren't paying their entire hospital bills, and that number could increase to 95 percent by 2020, according to a study from TransUnion , a company that helps hospitals...
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...

Here's How Much More You’ll Pay for Health Insurance Next Year

By Bertha Coombs, CNBC

Large employers aren't looking to make big changes in worker health coverage next year, no matter what happens with health policies in Washington. But they are not letting up on pushing employees to...
How Rising Health Care Costs Could Hurt Your Retirement

By Tom Anderson, CNBC

Skyrocketing health costs don't just make it harder for you now — they can diminish your retirement, too. More than 60 percent of employees said they are contributing less to their 401(k) plans...
Is Your New Medical Device Vulnerable to Hackers?

By Beth Braverman

The introduction of new, smart technology to the medical field has amazing life-saving potential for patients, but it also introduces a serious new risk: hacking.
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...

Hospitals Launch New Push to Slash Labor Costs

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

Faced with the prospect that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicare cost control http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/06/09/Medicare-Cost-Control-... measures will remain in place even if the...
Doctors Urge Rationing 45 Common Screening Tests

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

While Republicans last week were casting another symbolic vote to repeal a cost-control method in the Affordable Care Act that they call rationing, nine physician groups representing nearly half of...
Working Our Way Through Old Age

By Michael Hodin, The Fiscal Times

The failure to understand that today’s financial issues, from Greek debt to the future of the euro, are caused by the mismatch between 20th century health and retirement benefits and new 21st century...
The Economics of Happiness: Where the U.S. Ranks

By Yuval Rosenberg

The rankings make clear that richer countries do tend to be happier – but the relationship is not quite that simple.
Pharma Takes Hit As 'Blues' Drugs Fade to Black

By Kate Kelland and BEN HIRSCHLER, Reuters

The development of a novel antidepressant ground to a halt this week when researchers found it did not make patients feel any better than the pills they were already taking.The drug firms took the...

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