The point of health insurance market reform worthy of the name is twofold: to make markets more efficient and more fair for all, not just for some, and to transition the business model of insurers away from risk selection and toward care coordination and high value care.

How to find the right and affordable health insurance coverage plans for Small Businesses. The author shares information on healthcare financing and group health insurance coverage.

New York Attorney General Mario Cuomo is investigating possible college deals made with health insurance providers.

More than 162,000 eligible children in California are at risk of falling through safety net and losing hope of needed affordable health insurance coverage.

With all the talk about economic bailout plans, falling stock prices, and rising energy costs it is easy to lose site of some of the other top issues in this year's election. One that we've focused on is health care for all Americans. We thought we had re-visit the important issue of health insurance and health care before the election.

A friend of mine got some data together and put it in a nice calculator for individuals to figure out how much money they'd have to pay with the McCain health tax.

Uninsured children in families earning between approximately $38,000 and $76,000 a year are about as likely to go without any health care as uninsured children in poorer families.

A proposal to implement a value-added tax for universal health insurance vouchers would also provide for significant decreases in other taxes, according to the authors of a commentary in the October 22/29 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on the Health of the Nation. They add that this plan would create incentives for cost-containment and health care quality.

New research to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds parents often can’t afford to pay extra to cover their kids

The U.S. Census Bureau today released the most extensive estimates it has ever published on county-level demographic characteristics of people with and without health insurance coverage. Texas has the lowest rate of people without health insurance.

The New York Times reports on a recently announced change in Medicare’s policy that is likely to have far-reaching implications for practice of medical malpractice law. The largest insurer in the US will no longer pay bills resulting from what it deems “preventable” medical errors made by hospital employees on patients under their care.

Extending Medicare to include private hospitals could lower Australians' reliance on private health insurance and reduce waiting lists, a health economics expert says.