Author: Kalup Alexander
Rejecting critics and community concern, voting members of Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative have overwhelmingly agreed to join with the California health-care giant Kaiser Permanente.
Cathy Kerns expected to spend her retirement savings as her friends do: on cruises or other “golden years” indulgences.
The state of California is adding cost information to a report card that rates the quality and patient experience scores for major medical groups practicing in the state.
On Monday, Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount, officially became the powerful speaker of the California Assembly. On Thursday, he announced how that power will be distributed.
Health insurance isn’t simple. Neither are government regulations. Put the two together and things can get confusing fast.
High deductibles add to consumers' financial stress and dissuade some patients from getting needed medical care.
The failures of a dozen nonprofit health insurance plans created by the Affordable Care Act could cost the government up to $1.2 billion, according to a harsh new congressional report that concludes federal officials ignored early warnings about the plans’ fragility and moved in too late as problems arose.
Last year's final enrollment numbers under President Barack Obama's health care law fell just short of a target the administration had set, the government reported Friday.
Vantage Health Plan executives saw an opportunity when they realized few of their female Medicare members were being screened for osteoporosis after they broke bones.
Obamacare enrollment is already millions of people below original forecasts, and we could see two sorts of death spirals in the insurance exchanges of the Affordable Care Act because of premium inflexibility mandated by law and partisan unwillingness to make the necessary compromises to fix it.