Making retirement lemonade from health insurance lemons

A push to shift more health-care costs onto consumers has fueled growth of high-deductible plans paired with Health Savings Accounts. A 55-year-old couple today can build a tax-free retirement stash worth more than...

Senate Panel To Probe How To Bring Stability To Health Insurance

GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander has organized bipartisan hearings aimed at preventing a "death spiral" on the health insurance market. David Greene talks to Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire. DAVID GREENE, HOST: It turns out...

U.S. governors urge Trump to make insurance payments

Democratic and Republican U.S. governors on Wednesday urged the Trump administration, as well as Congress, to continue funding payments to health insurance companies that make Obamacare plans affordable, calling it critical to stabilizing the...
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What is the future of health care in America?

Public health Professor Tom D'Aunno talks about the future of health care policy under the Trump administration Despite his most recent failed attempts at passing the American Health Care Act into law, Donald Trump is...

U.S. spends much more on health care than other developed nations

Per capita spending is growing faster than OECD average I am delighted that I’m not a health care expert. It allows me to opine without being constrained by complications. Recently, I suggested that the time may...

How safe is your Medicare?

There are several popular misconceptions about the financial condition of Medicare, which virtually all American senior citizens rely on to cover health care expenses in retirement. Many people believe that Medicare is broke, or...

The night John McCain killed the GOP’s health-care fight

It was the most dramatic night in the United States Senate in recent history. Just ask the senators who witnessed it. A seven-year quest to undo the Affordable Care Act collapsed — at least for...

What’s Next In The Health Care Debate?

Senate Republicans have at least narrowed the options on what comes next for the Affordable Care Act — casting two separate votes since Tuesday that knocked out a "repeal-only" proposal and rejected a plan...

Senate Republicans Don’t Know What Health Care Bill…

Senate Republicans Don’t Know What Health Care Bill They’re About To Vote For. That’s Nuts. Behold the “Something Act of 2017”! The long, halting slog toward Obamacare repeal is set to reach a significant milestone Tuesday,...

Republican Strategy On Health Care Bill In Flux Ahead Of Vote

The fate of any legislation to rewrite Obamacare is uncertain. Republican Senate leaders aim to hold a procedural vote as early as Tuesday to take up legislation to repeal or replace Obamacare, but it remained...

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