Health Care

Budget Battles

  • Obamacare Timeline: 18 Major Changes

    By AMY GOLDSTEIN, The Washington Post

    As it has been implementing the 2010 law reshaping the U.S. health-care system, the Obama administration has instituted a series of delays and other changes to the way the statute works in practice...

  • Superbug Alert Is a Wakeup Call to Hospitals

    By Mark Koba, CNBC

    The overuse of antibiotics for patients in U.S. hospitals is contributing to the rise of so-called superbugs, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This is a...

  • Employers’ Health Care Push: Play by Our Rules, or Pay

    By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

    In Las Vegas, the house always rules. The same maxim may apply to how you obtain health benefits through your employer. Under a growing employer insurance option called "house money/house rules,"...

  • Harsh Weather Is Blamed for Hiring Woes

    By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

    U.S. private employers added fewer workers than expected in February and services sector growth hit a four-year low, the latest signs of the economic toll severe weather is taking. Another indication...

  • <strong>Founder</strong>: Victor Wang, age 25<br /><strong>Launched</strong>: December, 2012<br /><strong>Mission</strong>: Wang grew up in Canada, while his grandmother lived alone in Taiwan. She was so lonely and dispirited she actually talked about s

    Scientist Venter Aims to Bend the Aging Cost Curve

    By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters

    Craig Venter, the U.S. scientist who raced the U.S. government to map the human genome over a decade ago and created synthetic life in 2010, is now on a quest to treat age-related disease. Venter has...