Consumer Driven Health Care

A new study shows that mammograms are upping the number of invasive treatments done despite the lack of life-threatening breast cancer.

Financial risk is the big factor in whether a company self-insures or not. There's little argument about costs self-insurance is less expensive and allows employers to customize plans more easily. It is also less heavily regulated.

Wearable devices are a popular employee wellness tool. But do employees see them as something fun and voluntary or mandatory and controlling?

The rising cost of health care will largely burden employees rather than employers, as companies continue to make workers pay for a larger share of their health care through higher deductibles and increased copays.

Clinton defends the Affordable Care Act provisions that grew out of the old patient's rights bills.

For subsidized enrollees, average monthly net premiums could fall about 11 percent, an actuary says.