This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in every state, marking the debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Affordable Care Act. The goal is quality coverage for millions of uninsured people. But the devil is in the details
In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, two economists from the American Enterprise Institute refuted the "myth" of the declining middle class, with statistics that show we're better off today than we were in 1950. Just one bit of bad news: They ignored all the bad news.
There's a new health care survey, and at first it sounds like good news about insurance costs. Premiums for job-based family health plans went up just 4 percent this year, says the Kaiser Family Foundation's annual report, released Tuesday.
Among the many ideas legislators in Washington have proposed for reducing federal spending is raising the age at which Americans qualify for Medicare benefits from 65 to 67. On the surface, that makes sense. But scratch the surface and the numbers show it to be an $11 billion blunder.
Employer-sponsored plans are the leading source of health insurance in America. But according to a new report, challenging economic times are making such coverage more expensive and less effective for millions of people.
