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

Sanders Says For-Profit Health Care Has to Go

By Eric Pianin

Bernie Sanders has said from the start of his campaign for president that it’s an outrage that U.S. expenditures on health care are three time more per capita than those of Great Britain and 50...
Affordable Care Act Hasn’t Made Health Care Affordable, Study Finds

By Millie Dent

Despite its name, the primary goal of the Affordable Care Act was to expand health care coverage to millions of Americans who had been uninsured. And while it’s done that — 15 million non-elderly...
Two Big Problems for Obamacare: Cost and Confusion

By Millie Dent

Very few uninsured Americans know the deadline for signing up for health coverage through Obamacare, according to a new study conducted by the Kaiser Health Foundation. Related: Obamacare Is Now on...
Have We Seen Peak Pharma? Valeant Lowers Drug Prices in Walgreens Deal

By Beth Braverman

Amid increased scrutiny of recent drug price hikes from lawmakers and regulators, Valeant Pharmaceuticals announced Tuesday plans to lower prices on some of its prescription drugs this year. By the...
Steep New Penalties for Uninsured Americans Who Don’t Enroll in Obamacare

By Eric Pianin

After two years of genteel coaxing of millions of Americans to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration has begun to turn up the heat with a sharp increase...

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