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

Health Plans Undergo Major Changes to Cut Costs

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

Even if Republicans succeed in repealing President Obama’s signature reform bill, most of the changes it promotes in the delivery system will be implemented in the private sector where most people...
DOJ Subpoenas Overlap with SEC

By Aruna Viswanatha, Reuters

A U.S. Justice Department inquiry into the packaging and sale of home loans by the biggest U.S. banks casts a wide net and appears to significantly overlap with other enforcement efforts, according...
Obama Risks $100 Billion If Catholic Hospitals Close

By Edward Morrissey

Perhaps Barack Obama assumed that religious leaders would simply offer a token protest to his new mandate for religious organizations to provide free birth control, even when contraception,...
Inflating the Deficit with Futile Health Therapies

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

A promising strategy for holding down health care costs in the Obama administration’s reform bill – providing patients and doctors with authoritative information on what works best in health care –...
What CEO Musical Chairs Means to the Job Market

By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

usiness analysts and search firms say 2012 will be the year of CEO musical chairs, particularly in the health care and financial services industries, which are both coming to terms with new...

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