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

White House Scrambles to Secure Support for Obamacare

By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post

By the time President Obama acknowledged on Monday that his signature health-care program had serious problems, it was clear the political stakes had escalated for the White House. And so that...
Live Updates and Video: House Hearing on Obamacare Woes

By The Fiscal Times Staff

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a hearing Thursday on the problems with the launch of the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace, HealthCare.gov. Watch the proceedings live here.
Obamacare 404 Error: No Place to Hide for Sebelius

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius faces a devastating glitch in her credibility and her career, after the atrociousrollout of the Obamacare online insurance exchanges. Last night...
How to Know if Obamacare Has Failed

By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

Facing new poll numbers that suggest that nearly three quarters of uninsured Americans are not aware of the online insurance exchanges, the Obama Administration has a tough, uphill battle.
Obama Turns to High Pressure Sales to Save Obamacare

By Eric Pianin

Sounding more like an insurance salesman than the nation’s chief executive on Monday, Obama this morning stressed there are plenty of alternatives to the troubled health care website. He pitched the...

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