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A quick guide to revisions to the cost-sharing subsidies for lower-income marketplace customers and the proposal to add different plans to the market.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans would like to see the administration focus on efforts on making the Affordable Care Act work, rather than trying to make it fail.
For several million consumers who buy their own insurance but earn too much to qualify for subsidies, the ever-growing price of premiums takes a big toll.
Tom Price resigned from running the Department of Health and Human Services after a series of news stories detailing how he tallied more than $400,000 in private plane travel paid for by taxpayers.聽
Those relying on the federal government鈥檚 safety net are grandmothers, the kid next door, your supermarket cashier 鈥 maybe even you.
Employers report the sixth consecutive year of small increases, but workers at small firms feel the biggest pinch, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey.
Not only are health prices hidden, industry players are contractually obligated to keep them secret. That鈥檚 why answering a simple question 鈥 how much does it cost to have a baby in Mountain View, Calif.? 鈥 became a journalistic quest.
This immunization may mark a shift among some vaccine makers to higher-priced, 鈥渘iche鈥 preventives that protect against very specific and sometimes rare illnesses.
In this episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times discuss the potential health impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas Gulf Coast, and what impact the relief effort in Washington could have on an already jampacked September agenda. Also this week: an interview with Elisabeth Rosenthal about why medical care costs so much.
In this Facebook Live, KHN鈥檚 Julie Appleby talks with Stephanie Stapleton and answers readers鈥 questions about the prescription drug pricing pipeline and the industry stakeholders who have a role in what you pay.
Three-quarters of participants in a newly released study said they did not know of resources for comparing health care costs, while half said that if a website were available to provide such information, they would use it.
The number of Americans with high-deductible health plans is growing, along with the fear that even insured people won鈥檛 get the care they need because it鈥檚 too costly.
For pregnant women in the United States, Medicaid is less a safety net than a building block of the maternity care system.
A coalition of health care providers are blocking Ohio鈥檚 law requiring health care providers to tell what non-emergency services will cost them.
Tennessee and Virginia regulators are considering approval of a merger between Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System under their state laws. If they allow it, the Federal Trade Commission would be powerless to stop it.
The controversial 340B drug discount program for hospitals came under fire at a congressional hearing.
Some health plans are beginning to offer free maintenance care for people with chronic health problems, hoping that spending a little more early on will save a lot of money in the long run.
A little-noticed provision in President Donald Trump鈥檚 executive order on drug prices may offer a clue to why Big Pharma hasn鈥檛 opposed a bill that could bleed their balance sheets of millions of patients.
The bill would limit non-economic damages to $250,000, but it faces opposition from across the political spectrum.
Critics point to the state鈥檚 aggressive eligibility checks as an example of what can go wrong when states have flexibility and add a reason to worry about GOP efforts to overhaul the program.
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