This article provides an overview of the U.S. health care reform debate and legislation, with a focus on health insurance.

An overview of the U.S. health care reform debate and legislation, with a focus on health insurance.

Monday's release of the annual Medicare Trustees' report seems on the face of things to be a simple exercise in dry accounting – trust fund x will run out of money in year y.  In fact, it's much more than that.  It's an annual reminder that we are...

Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

Health care policy and health care reform are back in the news in a big way. The Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care overhaul. The Obama administration has just released guidelines for the operation of the state-based insurance exchanges that are the backbone of the law.

How a forced stand-off between two groups who have equal and opposing claims on the outcome could have been avoided entirely.

The belief that health insurance and the increased use of primary care associated with it leads to fewer hospitalizations has played an important role in the recent health care reform debate.

Waiting to act until the Supreme Court has made its decision on ObamaCare proves risky for all involved.