US Health Care
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Employee Health Costs Expected to Top $15,000 Next Year
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Obamacare Exchanges Lost 1.2 Million Unsubsidized Enrollees
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To Save Money, American Patients And Surgeons Meet In Cancun
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Pete Buttigieg Unveils ‘Medicare for All Who Want It’ Plan
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Poll of the Day: Sanders Has the Edge on Health Care
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Short-Term Insurance Plans Pushed by Trump Spend Far Less on Medical Care
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Trumpcare, Coming This Fall?
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Drugmakers Master Rolling Out Their Own Generics to Stifle Competition
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Democrats’ Unhealthy Debate Over Health Care
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The White House Is ‘Scrambling’ to Come Up with a Health Care Agenda for Trump: Report
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Democrats Brawl Over Medicare for All
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Support for Medicare for All Slips: Poll
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GOP Senators Distance Themselves from Grassley and Trump’s Efforts to Cut Drug Prices
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Trump’s Medicare Chief Says Public Option Is a Bad Idea
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Trump Considering Executive Order to Lower Medicare Drug Prices: Report
Newsletter
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Trump Reportedly Wants to Buy ... Greenland?
$100 Million: That’s how much President Harry Truman offered Denmark to purchase Greenland back in 1946, a deal the Danes turned down. According to a Wall Street Journal report Thursday, President...
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IRS Budget Cuts Led to Billions in Lost Corporate Tax Revenue: Study
IRS budget cuts are costing the U.S. government substantially more in tax collections than they save, according to a new study highlighted by USA Today . Researchers at the Indiana University Kelley...
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Chart of the Day: The Explosive Growth in Health Care Overhead
Administrative overhead has grown enormously in the U.S. health care system over the last 50 years, as this chart from Uwe Reinhardt’s final book suggests. The Princeton economist, who died in 2017,...
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Why Americans Won't Vote for Carbon Taxes
Earlier this year, dozens of well-known economists backed a proposal to use a carbon tax as part of the federal policy response to global warming. Carbon taxes are generally popular with policy wonks...
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Why the US Should ‘Borrow Gobs of Cash’ Right Now
Investors worried about the health of the global economy continued to scramble to the safety of U.S. bonds on Thursday, driving the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds below 2% for the first time...
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A $1 Trillion Deficit Is Bad. The Reality Is Much Worse.
President Trump’s signing of a two-year budget deal earlier this month may have averted the chances of another government shutdown before the 2020 election, but it certainly added to the exposure of...
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Employee Health Costs Expected to Top $15,000 Next Year
The cost of employee health benefits is projected to rise 5% next year, topping $15,000, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by the National Business Group on Health. That increase is the...