President Obama has proposed raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to pay for health care reform. This reform will cost over 600 billion dollars. Many opponents of this move see it is another foolish bit of government spending.

MSNBC reported yesterday that Minnesota passed single payer universal health care for the state. The voted was split completely down party lines, with all democrats voting for it and all Republicans voting against it.

Barack Obama promised us radical health care reform. Understandably the loss of Tom Daschle, who was indeed uniquely well qualified to push health care legislation, has damaged the progress of potential improvement to our nation's health care. But the loss of Daschle is far from the only problem.

Faced with the need to increase the speed at which they respond to customers, Physicians Mutual, an Omaha-based individual health and life insurer, collaborated with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to improve responsiveness to customers with a unified approach to all its information.

The drive toward containing health care costs could have the unintended consequence of reducing physician productivity, impairing quality and perhaps even increasing costs, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center physicians suggest in a New England Journal of Medicine "Perspective."

Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, knew there had to be a better way. He and Group Health colleagues set out 15 years ago to explore how best to engage patients with chronic diseases in effective care. With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation support, they developed the Chronic Care Model

Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Many Americans have lost more than just retirement savings amid a year-long economic meltdown that has sliced the U.S. stock market’s value by nearly half in a little over a year, a University of Illinois elder law expert says.

When you're home sick with a non-fatal strain of the hantavirus, there's nothing quite as comforting as watching a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the Economic Outlook and Options for Stimulus.

Imagine a scenario where doctors from different hospitals can collaborate on a surgery without having to actually be in the operating room. What if doctors in remote locations could receive immediate expert support from top specialists in hospitals around the world?

US has highest rates among 8 nations of patient-reported medical errors, wasteful or poorly coordinated care and high out-of-pocket costs; Dutch often fare best in affordable, accessible care, low rates of medical errors

Leaders in health care and health care policy feel strongly that the way we pay for health care in the U.S. must be fundamentally reformed.