Health Care Reform

In 2018, regulatory efforts took a back seat to the actions of private-industry health care players and businesses. Here's a look at the highlights.

Making single-payer health care the progressive position opens a door for more modest proposals to expand the government's role in health insurance.

The health care industry created 32,000 jobs in November, adding to the 328,000 health care positions created since early 2017.

A California law requiring drugmakers to notify the state of significant price increases has uncovered a total of 28 companies planning on prices increases substantially in 2019.

Medicare Advantage insurance companies seem to be doing a surprisingly good job at mitigating opioid abuse.

A seventh-week surge helped bring the signup total for the entire 2019 enrollment period to 8.5 million, about 4.2 percent lower than 2018.