Health Care

Budget Battles

  • For Lipitor, New Threat in Generics

    By LINDA A. JOHNSON

    Lipitor, the best-selling drug in the history of pharmaceuticals, is the blockbuster that almost wasn't. When it was in development, the cholesterol-lowering medicine was viewed as such an also-ran...

  • Hospitals Pay Sales Staff to Influence Docs

    By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

    The University of Chicago Medical Center is one of a growing number of hospitals nationwide hiring former drug and device sales representatives to visit doctors’ offices to persuade them to use their...

  • Paul Ryan Flips after Medicare Flop

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    A bipartisan plan that would allow future seniors on Medicare to choose private insurance plans while still offering traditional Medicare for those who want it represents a huge retreat by Rep. Paul...

  • Feds Winning Battle against Health Care Fraud

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The government prosecuted a record number of cases for health care fraud last year as a major crackdown that began in late 2009 began to bear fruit.

  • Consumer Alert: High Health Deductibles Coming

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Employers this year continued the recent trend toward offering their employees high-deductibles, either with or without health savings accounts, according to a new survey by the Employee Benefit...