Health Insurance Issues

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...

13.7 million adults under 30 lacked health coverage in 2006, up from 2005

The National Institutes of Health is seeking those patients — and ones who qualify could get some free care at the government's top research hospital as scientists study why they're sick.

A new study funded by GlaxoSmithKline found that Type 2 diabetics who have to shell out higher copays are more likely to not take their drugs as indicated.