Rivals lock horns on US health-care costs
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WASHINGTON - What is the best way to curb the astronomical expense of medical care in the United States? Start by printing the Internal Revenue Service&#39;s tax tables again, Mr John Kerry says.
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Who pays for health care may turn out to be the biggest rift between President George W. Bush and state governors now holding their winter meeting.
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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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The pharmaceutical industry is expected to face pressure to curb rising prescription-drug costs no matter which candidate wins next week's U.S. presidential election.
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As a new enrollment period gears up, employers are bracing for how much it is going to cost to cover their workers&#39; health. Although insurance premiums are expected to rise at a slower rate than
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MILWAUKEE Sept. 14, 2004 - John Kerry, arguing that the escalating price of doctors, hospitals and medicine far outpace annual increases in Social Security benefits, promises to ease the financial pinch on seniors by bringing health costs down.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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The U.S. President has said that the problem with health care is the lawyers. He doesn't seem to think that there are any other problems we should be concerned about, and the free market is the best way to determine how much you would be willing to pay for health care. The President is pushing our current system, and his challenger is doing the same.
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AT THE MOMENT, the precise numbers and costs of the health care reforms proposed by President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry are the subject of angry campaign rhetoric.
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Supporters of Tennessee&#39;s plan to cut spending on its expanded Medicaid program believe it could be a model for other states fighting rising health-care costs.
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As doctors voiced anger at an Annapolis rally yesterday over escalating insurance costs, legislative leaders said they remain far from a consensus on how to address the problem before Maryland physicians&#39; bills come due next month.
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Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John
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The cost of health insurance premiums in the US rose three times faster than earning over the past four years, according to a report released today from the nonprofit Families USA.
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GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That&#39;s according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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In a tug of war over the skyrocketing costs of medical technology, the makers of implantable defibrillators are opposing a plan by Medicare to track the health outcomes of patients who get the devices.
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The nation&#39;s health-care cost increases rose sharply again this year, according to global human resources services firm Hewitt Associates, and Phoenix was no exception.
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Sept. 23, 2004 -- President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have both cranked up the rhetoric in an effort to sell their health care plans to American voters, both promising to ease rising costs and reduce the number of families without insurance.