Life & Health

Some life insurers now use data from fitness trackers to lower premiums. But does a policyholder’s number of steps really improve mortality?

Whatever GOP leaders may actually be thinking, it's clear that the time has come for bipartisan healthcare reform.

Given that the American Health Care Act may crash and burn, it's time to start thinking about what could come next.

The American Health Care Act fails to address what should be a critical goal of any reform: making healthcare affordable.

We argue about who pays: the government, your employer, you? The answer redistributes the pain--but doesn't reduce it.

What Republicans are putting forward may bear only a passing resemblance to the reform we get at the end of a long, messy slog.

Why won't patients take their meds? It's an enormous problem, and the solution--still being sorted out--is exceptionally complicated.

In workers' comp, predictive analytics based on your historical data can measure what costs would have been without your interventions.