Consumer Driven Health Care

While the share of Americans without health insurance is near historic lows, the cost for many people to buy a health plan—if they don't get it from a job or the government—is higher than ever.

Without having done much yet, Amazon.com Inc. is already transforming U.S. health care -- and not necessarily for the better.

Services rendered in urgent care centers increased 1,725 percent from 2007 to 2016, more than seven times that of emergency room claims.

Warren's Consumer Health Insurance Protection Act, would provide more financial assistance to people who buy health insurance on their own.

Benefits professionals have put a colossal amount of effort into deciding which health care approaches will deliver the best value care.

In his short time on the job, Azar has embraced many of Obama's objectives around lowering costs and improving quality, but with a Trumpian impatience to upend the established order.

The passage of the Affordable Care Act led many employers to embrace self-funding plans to guard against rising costs.

We discuss why it has been impossible for consumers to shop for health care in much the same way they shop for most everything else in their lives and highlight solutions that are coming to market.