Consumer Driven Health Care

Having trouble getting health insurance? Youre not alone. Analysis from HealthPocket shows the health insurance industry averages an application rejection rate of 22 percent of submitted individual and family applications nationally.

WellPoint Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings jumped 38 percent compared to the final quarter of 2011, when the nation's second largest health insurer incurred a big hit from its Medicare Advantage business.

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, most Americans say the landmark Supreme Court case establishing abortion rights should stand.

The American Medical Association is looking for a big idea on how to change the way future physicians are traineda $10 million idea, to be exact.

Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will revisit a tumultuous 2012 that included a CEO resignation and choppy earnings when it releases results on Wednesday from last year's final quarter.

Americans have a list of important ages. At 16, its time for a drivers license in most states. At 18, its time to register to vote. At 21, people can buy alcohol. At 25, auto insurance usually gets cheaper. The next watershed date in a persons life after that is...