Health Care Reform

The year ahead looks to be dangerous for health-care security in the U.S., as Donald Trump's administration continues to sabotage the law that Congress couldn't repeal.

President Donald Trump has signed an anti-government shutdown bill that will eliminate $12.7 billion in Affordable Care Act health insurer fee taxes for 2019.

In an economics-textbook universe, wed expect to see competitors looking at the high profits that companies are able to charge, and eagerly pile into the market, driving down prices until they are once again at competitive levels. Why doesnt this happen?

Even as some U.S. cities tout themselves as destination vacation spots for medical tourism, lots of U.S. citizens have other ideas and are heading south of the border for their care.

An advisor to the Presidents Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis offers insights to the health care, health insurance, pharmaceutical and technology fields.

In all, the Department of Health and Human Services will send home or furlough about half of its employees, or nearly 41,000 people, according to an HHS shutdown contingency plan released Friday. Here's a look at some of the programs affected.