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

One Company that Can Make A Fortune on Obamacare

By Beth Braverman

eHealth struck a deal last week that would allow consumers in states with federal exchanges to enroll in Obamacare through its website. The Fiscal Times caught up with CEO Gary Lauer to discuss the...
Online Insurance Exchange Could Boost Enrollment

By Dan Mangan, CNBC

The federal government has signed a landmark deal setting the stage for leading online insurance exchange eHealthInsurance.com to enroll potentially millions of new people on Obamacare marketplaces...
Will Killing the “Doc Fix” Push More MDs from Medicare?

By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

Beyond the headlines of the rocky roll-out of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is a much more dramatic story. Many in Congress want to axe the Sustainable Growth Rate that pays...
The Push to Enroll Florida’s Uninsured

By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

Enroll America's "Get Covered America" campaign is canvassing neighborhoods across Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and several other states to kick off several months of outreach efforts. The group, which...
Abuse and Neglect in Assisted Living Facilities

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

You’ve seen the sales pitches about America’s assisted living facilities. Seniors can flourish in cheery alternatives to nursing homes and live out their golden years securely, monitored by caring...

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