Health Care Reform

The effort to make patients better health care shoppers by increasing their out-of-pocket costs seems to be working, according to actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

This year, price increases for personal health expenditures are projected to rise 2.2 percent, compared with 1.9 percent for overall inflation.

The administration is calling for a shift to a new, state-based Market-Based Health Care Grant (MBHCG) program in 2020,

Using civil suits to solve this public health problem is not a proper function of the justice system. Opportunistic litigation diverts attention from the need for properly targeted public policy solutions.

Faced with the prospect that they might be blamed for big increases in health insurance premiums, GOP leaders are trying to put in place the type of reinsurance programs that they fought to dismantle in the past.

President Donald Trump said that the nation should take unspecified action on mental health issues on Thursday, the day after a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people and wounded at least 14 more.