If you have avoided buying health insurance in the past because you did not want to deal with agents or because you wanted to be able to compare plans more effectively, then buying health insurance online is a good option.

People are afraid to pass DNA test and to find out they have genetically transmitted diseases in family, because it may eventually affect their health insurance coverage making it even less affordable and cause discrimination from health insurance providers and employers.

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana reached agreement to renew the system’s contract for two more years just hours before their previous contract was to expire.

USA Today on Thursday published two articles that examined how federal law might restrict some states and the city of San Francisco from enacting health insurance programs that require employers to offer workers health insurance coverage or contribute to a public fund to help cover the uninsured. The federal Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 exempts from state regulation employer-sponsored health insurance, pension plans and other benefits provided by employers.

WESTWOOD (KTLA)--Attorney Mark Geragos says he plans to file a lawsuit on behalf of the family of a 17-year-old girl who died just hours after her health insurer agreed to pay for a liver transplant.

U.S. businesses are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their employees as Mercer survey reveals that the cost of health benefits in U.S. continued to increase steadily.

One in every eight (12.2 percent) of the 47 million Americans without health insurance is a veteran or member of a veteran's household, according to a study by Harvard Medical School researchers based at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

According to Commonwealth Fund Commission, universal coverage is essential to a high performance health system; reform design will matter for improving quality and controlling costs.

About 89.6 million U.S. residents younger than age 65, or about 34.7% of the population, lacked health insurance coverage at some point during 2006-2007, according to a study released on Thursday by Families USA, the Florida Times-Union reports (Karkaria, Florida Times-Union, 9/21).

A new, detailed analysis of the latest US Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage looks behind the 2.2 million increase in the number of uninsured, examining changes by age and income.

The following is the statement of Kathleen Stoll, Health Policy Director of Families USA, about the Census Bureau's newly released findings that the number of Americans without health insurance coverage rose to 47.0 million during 2006:

Medicare reforms continue transition to more accurate hospital services payment system - promote quality care for all hospitalized patients.