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

Obamacare May Lose UnitedHealth: Will It Hurt?

By Millie Dent

A little more a month after UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s biggest health insurer, said it would expand its presence in Obamacare exchanges, the company is now saying it is pulling back on...
The Most Hated Health Insurance Company of 2015

By Millie Dent

To say that Americans don’t like their health insurance companies may be putting it mildly. In a recent survey asking consumers to rank their satisfaction with companies across 43 industries, health...
Health Insurance Hackers Put 154 Million Consumers at Risk

By Eric Pianin

Last February, health insurance giant Anthem Inc. revealed stunning news: Hackers invaded the company’s massive computer system and gained access to sensitive personal and medical information of 78.8...
Americans Give Health Insurers a Big Thumbs Down

By Millie Dent

Americans haven’t been this fed up with health insurance companies in a decade, and their frustration likely won’t fade soon. Consumer satisfaction with health insurance providers fell to the lowest...
3 Ways Mega-Rich Investors Could Cut Your Drug Prices

By Janna Herron

Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals continue to dive after a seething report issued this month by investors betting against the company compared it to Enron and critics questioned its drug-pricing and...

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