To lower health care costs, the Trump administration will have to wrangle a complex system fraught with competing interests.

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) play critical roles in US child health coverage, but children frequently endure uninsured periods, and recent federal health policy changes ...

Most rich democracies provide citizens universal coverage for medical services—but not in the United States, where tens of millions of people remain without health insurance and costs far exceed ...

Good news is often hard to find in American health care policy. The US has the dubious distinction of being the only rich democratic country with a large uninsured population, while simultaneously ...

While Congress and President Trump debate how much the government should subsidize certain health insurance premiums, they are missing a far more important question: How can the U.S. rationalize our ...

The American health insurance system is no longer a neutral mechanism for spreading risk or paying for care. It has become a finely tuned profit machine—engineered by massive, multi-billion-dollar ...

New polling has found that the majority of voters say health care in the U.S. is unaffordable and are open to a health insurance system that doesn’t tie coverage to employment. Undue Medical Debt, a ...

We analyzed nearly 720 health insurance costs from eight insurers, reviewed complaints, customer satisfaction, metal tiers and the types of plans offered in the marketplace. See our top picks below to ...

With the turn of the New Year, millions of Americans who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act have seen their premiums skyrocket. Last August, the Congressional Budget Office ...

Working for one of the largest health insurers in the country, Rachael Proffitt understands more than most Americans the complexities of navigating insurance red tape. So, when the 40-year-old ran ...