When it comes to having affordable health coverage and access to good-quality care, where you live matters, a new report says ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation would slash Medicaid spending by more than $1 trillion and ...

Part 5: ANALYSIS: The 2 options for US health care likely to emerge in the next decade. ... Every time I hear someone, especially a pious politician, lauding our American health care system, ...

Everyone has gripes about the American health care system. But now that the US is facing a coronavirus pandemic, the flaws have far greater – and even deadly – repercussions.

By nearly all measures, the complex, fragmented US health care system is failing its people. Despite spending 17 percent of gross domestic product on health care, representing $4.9 trillion, the ...

Washington, January 31, 2008 – All candidates running for office in 2008 should commit to an agenda to create a health care system for the United States that is second to none the American ...

Businesses found a workaround — in health benefits — and Congress ultimately made employer contributions to care tax-free. By 1955, the share of the population with insurance rose sixfold.

Today’s national health care system is so broken that it more closely resembles a 19th century medieval cottage industry in England than anything remotely close to modern and functional. That is ...

One metric — known as mortality amenable to health care — combines all of these characteristics and grades a country’s health system on how well it prevents deaths from conditions that ...

The middlemen that comprise a growing share of America’s convoluted health-care system find themselves in a bind. The public is angry about the inflated costs and opaque dealings that govern ...

Yet nearly 20 years later, our health-care system is still struggling to address the impact of mental health on overall health, particularly for those living in distressed communities.