Life & Health

Hospital mergers and acquisitions of physician practices keep driving up costs. It's high time we changed the equation.

A shockingly serious proposal is being floated that would have companies announce how fat their employees are, how much they drink, etc.

Hundreds of thousands of people honestly believed they were entitled to subsidies under Obamacare -- and may be about to get a huge bill.

Even if the cost per unit of service is standardized, extremely wide variation exists in how patients are treated for given conditions.

Something is seriously wrong when the nation's biggest life insurer pays more in commissions to its agents than it pays in death claims.

Studies have found that loneliness is as dangerous as diabetes, as being an alcoholic or as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Insurance industry protects families from becoming destitute if a breadwinner dies. What if that probability is significantly reduced?

How many times do wellness promoters have to admit or prove that wellness doesn’t work before everyone finally believes them?