health care

For Houston dialysis patients, getting treatment during the disaster means life or death

By PBS News Hour

The Houston health care system is under strain from the fallout from Hurricane Harvey. Aside from those who have been injured, patients with chronic diseases still need their life-saving treatments. Miles O’Brien talks to Tomeka Weatherspoon of Houston Public Media.

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How do I get the Medicare coverage I want with the lowest out-of-pocket cost?

By Philip Moeller

If your overall objective here is to get the coverage you want with the lowest annual out-of-pocket expense, you can use Medicare's own online tools to get a good idea of available Part D drug plans and Medigap supplement plans.

Column: The health insurance tax exemption makes care more affordable, not less

By Joseph White

Public policy professor Joe White replies to Yevgeniy Feyman and Charles Blahous’s argument that the health insurance tax exemption induces people to buy too much health care.

Column: The real health care fight is coming, and it's about seniors' access

By Philip Moeller

Older citizens and their families need to be vigilant about efforts to raise the price of their health care, restrict their access to care or deny it to them altogether. Here are three such efforts to be aware of.

Column: A tax reform President Trump should like, and you should too

By Yevgeniy Feyman, Charles Blahous

If both sides of the aisle are serious about improving our health care system, fixing this subsidy must become a priority.

This chewing gum detects dental disease

By Roni Dengler

European scientists develop a chewing gum for spotting oral infections with peri-implant disease.

Trump has new chief of staff, old health care fight

By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

President Donald Trump is looking for a fresh start with a new White House chief of staff. But he's still clinging to an old battle, refusing to give up on health care.

White House to Senate: Pass health bill now or else

By Hope Yen, Associated Press

The White House stepped up demands Sunday that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law.

Get ready for the next big health care fight. This one's all about kids

By Erin Mershon, STAT

CHIP, which health insurance for millions of kids, will run out of federal funds in weeks unless Congress acts. Another partisan fight may loom.

'Time to move on' from health care, Senate GOP leader says

By Alan Fram and Erica Werner, Associated Press

The Senate crash of the Republican drive to scrap the Obama health care law has left the party with wounded leaders and no evident way ahead on an issue that won't go away.