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Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to an annual projection released Wednesday by Fidelity Investments.

As health-care costs skyrocket, the ranks of uninsured Americans are growing at their fastest rate ever. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that 50.7 million people, or 16.7% of the population, had no health coverage in 2009, up from 46.4 million, or 15.4%, in 2008.

Approximately 10% of those surveyed in a recent Gallup poll on healthcare say that government involvement is a problem, up from only 5% at the beginning of this year.

Development of technologically advanced -- and expensive -- lifesaving treatments will continue to increase as the new health care reform law is phased in over the next few years.

Bert Martinez found out five years ago that his chronically ill daughter's medical bills would top $50,000 a year -- an amount the father of five children could not afford.* So Martinez quickly learned the art of negotiation. Soon he was haggling and bartering with doctors, hospitals and other...

There are 130,000 children in the foster care system waiting to be adopted in the US. Their prospects may have just gotten a little brighter. The recent health care reform bill has extended the previously boosted adoption credit which was slated to "sunset" at the end of 2010. Without the...

House Democrats passed the Senate version of the health care reform bill after hours of debate and politicking. It took about 9 1/2 hours to get to the crucial vote that passed health care reform at 10:46 p.m. ET by a vote of 219 to 212. All the Republicans and 34 Democrats voted against the bill....

Depending on the party, there's a lot of talk about what should or shouldn't fall under the health care reform umbrella. And depending on who you talk to, a few items the Senate wants covered may -- or may not -- be beneficial to Americans. The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" --...