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

Will Obamacare Actually Make You Healthier?

By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

President Obama on Tuesday kicked off what’s being described as a weeks-long campaign to bring attention to the ways the Affordable Care Act is working for individuals and families. So let’s look at...
Will Obamacare Tech Fixes Plug Political Fallout?

By Eric Pianin

The administration’s announcement over the weekend that it has achieved its promised goal of making the Obamacare website workable for the “vast majority” of users was the first piece of genuinely...
Obamacare ‘Ready’ for Rollout After Tech Fixes

By Juliet Eilperin and AMY GOLDSTEIN, The Washington Post

Administration officials are preparing to announce Sunday that they have met their Saturday deadline for improving HealthCare.gov, according to government officials, in part by expanding the site’s...
Millennials Give Obamacare a Big Boost in Poll

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Finally, some good news for the Obama administration. Despite two solid months of technological disasters, significant delays, low enrollment numbers and millions of cancelled insurance policies, the...
HealthCare.gov May Have Risked My Identity

By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

Security was the last thing I was pondering when I first tried to log onto HealthCare.gov nearly two months ago. I just wanted to find an affordable policy for my family of four. As I tried to follow...

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