Higher Costs, Less Care
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In the past four years, Americans have spent an ever-growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, forcing millions into the ranks of
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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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Sept. 10, 2004 -- American workers&#39; soaring health care costs could have a one small upside: They seem to be spurring companies to get more serious about worker health in a desperate bid to save money.
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Convenience comes at too big a price.
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A new study provides further evidence that health insurance is getting more expensive. It says family premiums in employer-sponsored health plans have jumped 11.
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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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CAN WE possibly gather together around the healthcare table and find a way to offer low-cost health insurance and reduce the ranks of the uninsured?
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WASHINGTON -- Routine failure to provide needed health care in the United States came with the price tag of $1.8 billion in additional medical costs and up to 79,000 avoidable deaths, according to a new study.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Obese people have higher health-care costs than those who aren't obese, says a study in the Oct. 25 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Most Americans agree our health insurance system is too expensive and leaves too many without coverage. There isn't much agreement on what to do about it.
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Seeing low fees for family doctors as a weak link in the nationâs health care system, some big employers and health insurers are seeking new ways to pay doctors to reward high-quality medical care.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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People with high-deductible health plans designed to raise awareness of costs and reduce unnecessary care are causing consumers to scrimp on health care, according to a study released on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Out-of-pocket costs may be  causing millions of older adults in the U.S. to cut back on  prescriptions for conditions as serious as diabetes, asthma and  depression, a new study suggests.
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NEW YORK - Health care costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year of double-digit growth, according to a new study.    The cumulative effect of rising health care costs is taking a toll on workers: There are at least 5 million fewer jobs providing health insurance in 2004 than there were in 2001, according to the survey of 3,017 companies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust...