One way to lower premiums: high-risk insurance pools for people with health problems. But critics say even successful high-risk pools were very expensive.
Mental health professionals around the country report a stream of patients coming in with "post-election stress disorder" -- the unofficial name for anxiety and depression related to the blast of daily news on the new administration.
The change comes as addiction to opioids, which include heavy-duty painkillers and heroin, still sweeps the country.
Low-wage workers with job-based health insurance were significantly more likely than their higher-income colleagues to wind up in the emergency department.
Federal program paid $16 million in first six months of 2016 to counsel 223,000 patients about treatment preferences in their last days.
The report comes as the state’s workplace health and safety agency, Cal/OSHA, is considering a major update of safety standards for workplace lead exposure for the first time in decades.
A study out Thursday tries to set aside the politics to examine how the insurance markets function and what makes or breaks them in five specific states.
Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Price showed little restraint in his personal stock trading during the three years that federal investigators were bearing down on a key House committee.
Should people bother paying the penalty for not having health insurance when they file their taxes this year if Obamacare is repealed?…
As Congress weighs repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence seeks to keep its Medicaid expansion under the federal health law.
