Economic Woes Accelerate Medicaid Spending
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Medicaid spending grew about  one-third from 2000 to 2003 as job losses and other economic  woes made more people eligible for the government-run health  insurance program for the poor, a new study said on Wednesday.
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Fraud in the $300 billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released on Wednesday.
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Premiums for job-based health insurance jumped 11.2 percent on average this year across the nation, according to a survey released Thursday, the latest evidence of a painful rise in medical costs that is placing an increasingly heavy burden on employers
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A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.
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Health care costs grew faster than the overall economy in the first half of this year, according to a study released Thursday. Although the increase
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The Bush administration is restricting the ability of states to expand Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes.
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With complicated and costly "biologics"  increasingly seen as the wave of the pharmaceutical future, health care experts warn that they will drive the nation's fast-growing bill for drugs far higher.
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NEW YORK  - The costs of caring for elderly people with diabetes, a growing population, are threatening to overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care, according to a new analysis of Medicare claims.
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Health insurance may be out of reach for more Americans as medical costs rose faster than worker income in the first half of the year, according to a closely watched survey released on Thursday.
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Health insurance premiums for workers are rising around three times faster than their wages, and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14 million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
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The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of uninsured swelled by 1.4 million.
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Shrinking budgets and escalating costs this year exacerbated many of the county&#39;s health- care problems, which included the first human case of West Nile virus and the fact that prescription medications are increasingly expensive for many seniors.
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With the rising cost of health care and over 45-million Americans uninsured, many believe America&#39;s healthcare system needs work.
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Federal officials are sending auditors to state capitals across the country to investigate techniques used by states to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid costs to the federal government.
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Consumer prices picked up momentum in September, with the most difficulty for people paying for medical care, education and gasoline, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
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While spending on health has tripled over the last 20 years, poor countries are not reaping the benefits, experts warn. BY MICHAEL O BOYLE/The Herald Mexico.
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Taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if soaring Medicaid reimbursements for prescription medicines more closely matched