A half-dozen presidential candidates back “Medicare for All,” a proposal that would put the government in charge of most health benefits. But some of the Democrats they’re courting aren’t sure that the nation’s health care system should be overhauled so dramatically.
The health insurance inflation rate hit a five-year peak in April, possibly because managed care is rising.
Health insurance deductibles have been steadily rising over the last decade, jumping 150% since 2009, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
Millennials are just not that into their parent’s health care system, a new study from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies (TCHS) finds. The study looks at millennials’ attitudes towards traditional health delivery systems and finds dissatisfaction and a hunger for new solutions that fit their digital lifestyle.
Nevada stands to become the fifth state to fully incorporate the federal Affordable Care Act’s protections for patients with pre-existing conditions into state law after unanimous passage of a bill Tuesday in the state Senate.
The company that makes OxyContin did not stop pitching the powerful opioid painkiller to doctors even when its sales representatives raised concerns that they were prescribing the drug inappropriately, the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office said in a lawsuit announced Tuesday.