We first examine how racism shaped early policy decisions that allowed local governments and private employers to provide inequitable access to health care and health insurance. We then discuss ...

The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, expanded access to health insurance but preserved many of the system’s underlying inequities. And by subsidizing private insurers rather than creating a ...

Commerce Department employees who were fired, reinstated, and fired again learned belatedly that their health insurance has ...

Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care.

The kind of health insurance you buy depends on whether you have access to an employer-sponsored plan, your age, your location, your family structure and your health care needs, among other things.

NOTES CHIP is Children’s Health Insurance Program. ACA is Affordable Care Act. Analysts anticipated that coverage would decline further. In 2010 the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

Health insurers are getting innovative and are offering jumbo benefits to customers. After ICICI Lombard’s ‘Elevate’ that offers infinite sum insured, 100% cumulative bonus and unlimited ...

The Make America Healthy Again movement challenges our nation to recognize that health insurance, health care, and health are fundamentally distinct. Past health policy reforms, largely focused on ...

Age: “Age is one of several factors insurers use when calculating your health insurance ... care costs requires planning. RBC Wealth Management advises younger savers with time on their side ...

In Canada, there are no health insurance companies. When Canadians get health care, the cost is paid by the government—often with few questions asked. If Canadians can get by without health ...

It might be easier to make sense of the recent fatal shooting of an insurance CEO, an act with ominous overtones about health care costs and insurance coverage, if any one aspect of health-care ...