When that important link is broken, your health gets worse and the costs borne by the whole health care system for your treatment rise.

A health insurance alliance proved to lower costs for individuals and employers.

Medicare Advantage − the private option that costs taxpayers extra and requires prior approval − is the default for some state agencies and corporations.

Two health law scholars explain how the public health insurance program for low-income people and people with disabilities works, and why cutting its cost would be hard to pull off.

Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.

When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.

Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.

Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position in the 21st century.

An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?