Group: US health care worse off
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American workers are paying more for their health insurance and getting less than they were four years ago, and the situation is particularly acute in several states important
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To cope with rising health care costs, companies are asking current retirees to pay more for health insurance and some are telling future retirees to do without, according to a study released yesterday.
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More people went without health insurance in the United States last year, with 45 million, or 15.6 percent of the population, lacking
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US Democratic Senator John Kerry said Wednesday night that the health care system in the United States had gotten worse under President George W. Bush overthe course of the last four years.
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Health care costs were a bigger drain on American wallets this year than in 2000, with 14.3 million workers spending more than a quarter of their income on medical care, according to a study by Families USA.
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Recent insurance-cost hikes spotlight the deep problems with how the US pays for health care. Both presidential candidates need to be paying closer attention.
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Democratic voters are far more dissatisfied with the nation's health care system than their Republican counterparts and much more likely to support a substantial increase in government spending to expand health coverage, a new report says.
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Health plans with high patient-paid deductibles, embraced by many Republicans as a market-based solution to quell soaring medical-care costs, lead to poorer quality care and increasing patient debt, a study released on Thursday said.
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For today&#39;s workers hoping for medical benefits when they retire, the future is looking increasingly grim. Eight percent of employers interviewed said they had eliminated subsidized health benefits for future
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Reforms to out-of-hours health care have been &quot;thoroughly mishandled&quot; by the Department of Health and only GPs have benefited from the new deal, according to a withering report from the Public Accounts Committee published on Wednesday.
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This yearâs report reveals a 17.5 percent improvement in Americaâs overall health during the past 15 years. However, the report also shows that the rate of improvement is slowing significantly due to a
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A stagnant economy and rising health care costs helped push the percentage of people in the USA without health insurance last year to 15.
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A new report by a national health advocacy group calls state and national policies ineffective tools in the war against obesity. The Trust for Americaâs Health, a nonprofit organization based in Washington
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The national hand-wringing over rapidly rising health-care costs generally ignores one point that at least some people find hard to miss: Many patients are getting much better results for their money than they did in the past.
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Projections for 2005 show that most Americans and businesses should be worried about what is becoming the most costly aspect of their daily lives - paying for health care.
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Our position is: Expansion of government control isn&#39;t the answer to US health-care problems. Soaring health care costs are taking an ever-larger share out of employee paychecks and eating into employer profits.
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NOT ONLY did President Bush and Sen. John Kerry drop the ball on the issue of health care in Wednesday night&#39;s presidential debate, but even moderator Bob Schieffer got it wrong when he said of health care, &quot;We&#39;re paying more.