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 Care Savings Bonanza: Docs Make House Calls

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

The U.S. lacks an adequate number of primary care physicians to coordinate the care of the 30 percent of patients with multiple chronic conditions, who account for nearly 90 percent of all health...
Obamacare Will Be an Even Bigger Campaign Issue

By Stuart Taylor Jr

By agreeing today to hear challenges to President Obama’s 2010 health care law, the Supreme Court set the stage for a decision – probably in late June and in the midst of the presidential campaign –...
Senate Investigates Billion Dollar Health Care Scam

By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

The Senate Finance Committee’s chairman and ranking members have launched an investigation into an alleged Medicare and Medicaid kickback scheme involving the nation’s two largest laboratory testing...
Wasted! $6.8 Billion on Needless Medical Tests

By The Fiscal Times Staff

Routine medical tests are often inappropriate and cost a bundle, according to a new study by Mount Sinai Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College – not only for the health care system but...
Health Plan Deductibles Up

By Michele Andrews, Kaiser Health News

Even very big companies are beginning to move all their employees into high-deductible coverage, perhaps signaling even wider adoption of these types of plans.

Search form