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

The Shocking Cost of Your Child’s ADHD

By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal Times

The number of children being diagnosed with ADHD has increased 53 percent in the past decade – and the costs to parents and taxpayers are rising with it.
The Cost Explosion of Obamacare Begins to Hit Home

By Edward Morrissey

When Democrats insisted on turning their attention to the health-system overhaul in 2009 rather than the jobs crisis, they argued that the rapid increase in health-care costs kept American businesses...
$1 Trillion in New Taxes from Health Reform Is Coming

By Eric Pianin

The Senate last week voted as part of its new budget to repeal a new sales tax on medical devices created to help finance the Affordable Care Act. While the 79-to-20 vote to kill the tax was largely...
Pricey Health Plans at Work Hit Consumers Hard

By Michele Andrews, Kaiser Health News

Historically, one of the perks of working at a big company has been generous health benefits with modest out-of-pocket costs. But increasingly, large companies are offering their employees only one...
Lobbying Groups Ramp Up War on Obamacare

By David Morgan, Reuters

Eight months before President Barack Obama's health care law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up its lobbying apparatus for an 11th-hour assault on the web...

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