News & Updates

Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Insurance New York Times Clint Murphy let the deadline for getting health insurance by the new year pass without a second thought. […]

Do You Speak Health Insurance? It’s Not Easy New York Now Solicit opinions about health insurance and you’re almost guaranteed to find consensus: It’s mystifying and irritating. Read the full […]

Medical and Health News That Stuck With Us in 2015 New York Times As the year ends, the Science desk at The New York Times asked its reporters to choose […]

Patients Fear Spike in Price of Old Drugs New York Times Fred Kellerman, a retired car salesman from Los Angeles, was bedridden with a rare neuromuscular disease when he started […]

Healthcare costs a top concern for Republican and Democratic voters Reuters Americans want to know what the next U.S. president will do to lower their rising healthcare costs, a priority […]

Senate passes antitrust bill despite A.G.’s concern Capital New York The State Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill that provides antitrust exemptions to Erie County Medical Center, over the […]

Obamacare Is Closing Insurance’s Race Gap Bloomberg View Whatever Obamacare’s shortcomings, a new paper shows one place where the law has been a clear success: narrowing the race gap in […]

In Likely Spending Plan, Congress Readies Blows to Obama’s Health Care Law New York Times In a big package of tax and spending legislation that Congress is likely to approve […]

Health Insurance Enrollment Deadline Is Extended to Thursday New York Times Hours away from a deadline, the government announced on Tuesday that it was extending an enrollment period for full-year […]

New York Medicaid spending soars on Hep C drugs Politico New York New York State’s Medicaid program spent nearly $185 million on hepatitis C drugs during the second quarter of […]