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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What If You Could Print What You Eat ...
By Linda Federico-O'Murchu, CNBCIf you're not excited by 3D printing it's because you're not thinking big enough, say some technology visionaries who predict that life on Earth will soon radically change because of it. According to...
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Sickest Patients Could Be Shifted Off Employer Plans
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health NewsCan corporations shift workers with high medical costs from the company health plan into online insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act ? Some employers are considering it, say...
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Why U.S. Latinos Are Heading to Mexico for Health Care
By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health NewsTIJUANA, Mexico – Irma Montalvo signed up for a health plan through California's new insurance exchange last month, getting coverage for the first time in eight years. But when she needed treatment...
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The Hospice Industry’s Frightening New Failure
By Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating, The Washington PostTAMPA — The 85-year-old hospice patient was close to death. Ying Tai Choi lay on a hospital bed arranged in the living room of her daughter’s house. A pulse oximeter pinged an intermittent warning...
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How Head Trauma and Homelessness Are Linked
By Futurity Org, FuturityA recent study of homeless men in Toronto shows that almost half had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury in their life and the majority of those injuries occurred before the men lost their...