health reform

Recent reports have suggested that health-care reform would lead to McDonald's workers losing coverage, to rate increases, to insurance companies leaving the business and to millions of seniors having to switch Medicare Advantage plans. It looks increasingly like most of those reports are proving...

A new study from Columbia University finds that the reasons America is lagging other countries aren't the commonly cited obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities and homicide. Rather, the problem has been poor health care, or rather, a poor health care system.

Republicans in the House of Representatives promised to end "job-killing tax hikes" and repeal the health reform law as part of their campaign manifesto for the November election. In their "Pledge to America," House Republicans also say they will ban federal funding for abortion, cancel any...

If 32 million people get health insurance in 2014 under health reform, will you still be able to find a doctor when you need one? That's a question a lot of people are asking, and no one truly knows the answer. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projects a shortage of 55,300...

Unsure if you should co-sign a deed? Trying to understand how the new health care law will affect prescription drugs? Uncertain if you should start a 529 college-savings plan now that you have a child? WalletPop experts tackle these questions and give it to you straight. Question: My husband and...

Some states are balking Obama's health-reform requirements for them to set up exchanges on which uninsured individuals and small businesses can purchase health coverage. But a closer look suggests uninsured Americans will be better off.

With the passage of health reform, top U.S. corporations are taking huge charges because the law is expected to reduce the deductions they can claim for their various employee health-care programs. On Friday, AT&T said it would need to take a $1 billion non-cash charge.

There are some valid concerns about the health reform legislation, starting with the fact that there aren't enough cost-cutting measures -- or curbs on the insurance industry. But this law is our best bet to save both lives and money.

Obama and congressional leaders have one last chance to convince Americans that health reform is above politics. There's no question the plan is complicated -- and probably flawed -- but failure to pass it means fewer will be able to afford insurance and costs will keep climbing.

President Obama's health-care summit on Thursday was hardly the bipartisan session he had hoped it would be, with Republicans calling for the White House to start over with the entire reform process. Obama said he hoped the event was not become just "political theater" and pleaded with the GOP to...