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

The Gutless Mandate Means Taxes Will Fund the ACA

By Eugene Steuerle, The Fiscal Times

As an economist, perhaps I shouldn’t be writing this piece. In delivering the opinion of the Court on the Accountable Care Act, Chief Justice Roberts makes an indirect attack on economists: “To an...
Upholding The Conservative Centerpiece of Reform

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

For the time being, the United States’ long slog toward universal health insurance coverage remains on track. The voters could still intervene. A political earthquake in November that puts...
SCOTUS Health Law Ruling: Tricky Investing Terrain

By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

Thursday's 5-4 Supreme Court ruling upholding virtually all the provisions of President Obama's controversial health-care reform legislation may have been a big victory for the White House, but it...
For Businesses, Court Ruling Provides Clarity…for Now

By Yuval Rosenberg

The Supreme Court ruling largely upholding President Obama’s health care reform plan may offer businesses a measure of needed certainty – though it will be months, if not longer, before the new shape...
Health Care Law Dodges a Bullet…for Now

By Henry Aaron, The Fiscal Times

Health care reform is a drama in four acts. The first two acts—the Congressional debate leading to enactment of the Affordable Care Act, and the multiple court cases culminating in today’s Supreme...

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