Small U.S. employers may be dropping health benefits partly because the Affordable Care Act premium tax subsidy system pushes employers to drop their coverage. Brian Blase, president of the Paragon Health Institute, makes that case in a batch of written testimony he prepared for a Senate hearing. Blase — an economist who served as a ...

Drugmaker Eli Lilly is rolling out a new model to make it easier for employers to provide access to its GLP-1 drugs for weight management. Lilly said in an announcement that the model is built on three core elements. For one, it provides flexibility around benefit options for obesity care, allowing employers to design the benefits that ...

Healthcare politics and investing might as well be living in alternate universes. President Trump and some Republicans have been describing Obamacare as a gravy train for insurers. Trump’s latest broadside slammed “big, fat, rich insurance companies who have made trillions,” and he urged Congress to send healthcare subsidies directly to patients instead. Wall Street sees ...

CalMatters recently reported on a cluster of lawsuits against nursing homes owned by Los Angeles entrepreneur Shlomo Rechnitz. Here are takeaways from our special report.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Thursday said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removing language from its website refuting the theory that vaccines are linked to autism was “deeply troubling.” Late on Wednesday, the CDC walked back its long-held position that vaccines do not cause autism. A CDC web page that previously stated “there is no link” ...

Fiber is known to be a crucial part of a healthy diet, promoting fullness and gut health. As trends like “fibermaxxing” make high-fiber eating more popular, understanding the best sources is increasingly important for individual health, according to nutritionists. Longevity expert Peter Attia, a Stanford University physician based in Austin, Texas, spoke about how fiber aligns ...