health care

WATCH LIVE: Senate health committee holds first hearing on stabilizing Obamacare

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

Both parties must give ground to craft a compromise bill shoring up the nation's individual health insurance markets or they'll be blamed for hurting millions of consumers, the chairman of the Senate health committee said Wednesday.

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.