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State officials sending a letter that opposes changes aimed at reducing the deficit by requiring Medicare beneficiaries to pay a higher share of the cost of their supplemental insurance.
Monday night's CNN/Tea Party Express debate among the Republican presidential candidates included discussion of Medicare, the health law, costs, the individual mandate and vaccines.
While consumers think they can find refuge in markets selling food grown locally, an investigation reveals seams in the federal government's efforts to keep the country's food supply safe.
The Veterans Health Administration has long used approaches Medicare is pushing on all hospitals to cut unnecessary readmissions. But new data show VA hospital patients are just as likely to end up back in a hospital bed.
At least 20 states are expanding their Medicaid managed-care programs in an effort to contain health spending and prepare for a huge expansion of the program beginning in 2014.
Employers struggling to keep down insurance costs are increasingly requiring workers to pay a percentage of high-cost drugs rather than a modest co-pay.
Cuts in Medicaid lead list of threats to the growth and profitability of children's hospitals.
Jackie Judd talks with Gil Gaul about his series, Building Ambitions, which looks at the big money world of children's hospitals in the United States. Gaul discusses his series and says big costs, amassed wealth and children's hospitals' unique place in health care in America make it a growing power player in providing health care in America.
Some consumer and patient advocates worry that the administration is bending too much toward insurers and employers when it issues new health regulations.
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