Health Insurance Issues

Uncompensated care means less money available for academic programs

Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say.

The 17th International AIDS Conference ended here on Friday with a call for the reversal of laws that criminalize and stigmatize groups at risk for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS

It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.

Paying physicians to devote more time to their patients, insurers hope to scale back costly treatments later.

No matter who sits in the Oval Office next year, there won&8217;t be many degrees of freedom in the federal budget. The main problem: Medicare.

European Union residents would be able to receive most health care treatment anywhere in the 27-nation bloc without prior authorization under a proposal published on Wednesday.

Democrats moved swiftly on Friday to assail Republican senators for voting against a major Medicare bill and said the Republicans should be held responsible for a 10 percent cut...

Two letters signeed by 132 members of Congress urge a delay in the Medicare bidding program for home medical equipment.

Massachusetts reduced its proportion of uninsured adults by nearly half in the first year of mandatory health coverage...