Month: February 2018

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that he's adopted a mantra as he looks to potential insurance and healthcare reform: "common sense." 

The Trump administration is putting the brakes on a key set of goals created by the Obama administration to dramatically reduce the cost of the clunky and overpriced U.S. health-care system. 

Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under a proposed rule released Tuesday by the Trump administration that could further roil the marketplace.

By many measures, the rambunctious campaign for a single-payer health care system in California appears to be floundering.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he will do everything “within my lane” to combat high drug prices and that he sees drug companies “gaming the system to try to block competition” in a multitude of ways in the marketplace.

The owner of Safeway and other grocery brands is buying the drugstore chain Rite Aid as retailers continue to plunge deeper into health care and adjust to swiftly changing shopping habits.

Norm Thurston is a “free-market guy” — a conservative health economist in Republican-run Utah who rarely sees the government’s involvement in anything as beneficial.

With recent cuts to taxes meant to fund the Affordable Care Act, rising premiums and no plan to adjust for the cuts, hospital officials warn the health care system is on a collision course that could result in more uninsured patients, rising levels of bad debt for hospitals and even higher costs to people who do have insurance.

Nevada's Silver State Health Insurance Exchange took the first step on Thursday to getting out of the federal healthcare.gov system and build its own exchange.

Nevada’s health insurance marketplace will replace the federal HealthCare.gov enrollment platform with a cheaper, state-based site in 2019.