Health care spending highest in Northeast
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Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.
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WASHINGTON - The cost of treating heart and lung disease and mental disorders led the upward push in US health care spending, according to a study examining cost jumps by medical condition.
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U.S. spending on prescription drugs,  hospital care and other health services is expected to double  to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in  2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.
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The Red Sox and Patriots aren't the only Massachusetts winners this fall. Each of the state's top four nonprofit health plans took high honors in an annual ranking of health insurance companies in the United States. For the third year running, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was named the best health insurance company in the country, according to rankings compiled by ...
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One of New England's top business leaders says companies should contribute more to employees' health insurance than is required by the state's healthcare revamp law.
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New Jerseyâs budget shortfall for retiree health care appears to be the biggest obligation among states that complied with a new accounting rule.
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How to benefit from increased spending on preventative medicine.
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U.S. researchers tracking government health care spending on illegal immigrants found that most of the money goes to childbirth costs and pregnancy complications, a study conducted in North Carolina showed.
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to an authoritative national survey reported Thursday.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy  are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790  billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,  according to a government study released on Friday.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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The dramatic increase in health-care spending in the United States since 1960 is a major reason that Americans are living longer, making the world's most expensive health-care system a good value despite its high costs, according to an academic study being released today.
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MUNICIPAL UNIONS should raise a holiday toast to gullible Massachusetts taxpayers for their willingness to absorb disproportionate pain from increases in health insurance costs. Bostonians, for example, sit by passively while city workers, who pay just 10 percent of premium costs for their HMO coverage, gobble up nearly half of the annual increase in the city's operating budget.
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WASHINGTON - Health care costs are higher in Milwaukee than the national average, according to a report Monday by the General Accounting Office, Congress&#39; investigative arm.
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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The national organization that ranks health insurers said it has chosen Harvard Pilgrim Health Care as the top health plan in the country, based on several quality measures and a survey of its members.
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TORONTO (CP) - The federal government&#39;s commitment to spend $41 billion on health care was a good deal for the provinces, but it will only help stabilize the system and do little to address inevitable challenges in the future, New Brunswick Premier