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Putting the 'Insurance' Back in Health Insurance

We understand that it would make no sense to buy auto insurance after we’ve already crashed our car. We appreciate that it would be strange to buy homeowner’s insurance after our house has already burned down. And yet, when it comes to health coverage, many of us think that it makes perfect sense to wait until we’re sick to buy health insurance. If we really want to make health insurance ...

Supreme Court decision on federal health care law could fire up young voters

The law is unpopular in Ohio, polling shows, yet its proposed cancellation has the potential to anger young adults, an important voting bloc for President Obama in November.

How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs

A new study in Health Affairs is attracting attention for its depiction of how powerful hospitals are extracting ?steep payment increases? from insurers. But what the study really tells us is how much the exceptional cost of American health insurance is caused by our system?s original sin: the fact that, due to a quirk in the federal tax code, most of us don?t buy insurance for ourselves, but ...

Higher Charges Drive Health Spending, Report Finds

Higher prices charged by hospitals, outpatient centers, and other providers drove up health care spending at double the rate of inflation during the economic downturn—even as patients consumed less medical care overall, according to a study released on Monday. 

$4.8M in cost cuts coming for York Hospital

YORK, Maine — Due to shrinking payments for services from federal and private health insurance, York Hospital is taking short- and long-term measures to trim 3 percent, or $4.8 million, from its bottom line by the end of the year.

To Save Medicare, Think Like The Patients Who Use It

Fast facts about the health insurance guarantee 50 million Americans rely on

Health care spending shows slowing trend

The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance.