Health Care

Mississippi bureaucrat backs off, lets town's only Doctor to continue making house calls. 

If you're a nurse practitioner, architect, or can work a retail floor, you're in luck: Pockets of the U.S. economy are hiring despite a much weaker-than-expected read on the labor market in March. 

New York City, the most densely populated city in the United States with 8.4 million residents, saw its first diagnosis of Ebola this month.  Last week, Dr. Craig Spencer, who recently returned from Guinea, tested positive for the disease. Beyond the health impact, local businesses say they are also taking a hit.

A new report from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  projects that health spending will increase by 3.6% in 2013, but will increase considerably over the next 10 years.

According to a new poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates, 38% of participants say they'd rather pay the mandate tax and forego buying health insurance.

Experts say the temporary fix that would enable insurance companies to collect payment from the government for subsidized plans holds plenty of risk for both small insurance providers and consumers.

The Affordable Care Act’s risk corridors for insurance companies could leave taxpayers on the hook for insurers’ losses. And the president's fix for Americans who have received cancelled policies may increase the losses.

Despite the president's repeated promises the ACA is the most transparent law in history and won't increase the deficit, it looks as though those reassurances are beginning to crumble.

The fight to stop waste, fraud and abuse is gearing up across the government as new estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation show nearly 17 million low- to middle- income Americans are eligible for federal tax credits to buy health insurance on the exchanges.

The FDA looks to improve the safety of food for animals and pets after a warning this week about potentially fatal dog jerky treats.

Young people are the key to making ObamaCare work, but will they buy insurance or pay the penalty? 

Why is the government ignoring a cost-free way to sign up the estimated 18 million low-income uninsured for health coverage under the health-reform law?

Connecticut hospital executives called on the General Assembly on Tuesday to prevent $63.4 million in new cuts to state Medicaid payments to their health care facilities.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is laying out a new plan to rein in the rising cost of prescription drugs, seeking to build upon President Barack Obama's health care law.

The leaders of two major health insurers planning separate multi-billion dollar acquisitions made the case for the deals to Congress as senators questioned whether they would hurt competition and raise prices for consumers.

With the public concerned about the high cost of new prescription drugs, a policy center that's often in sync with the Obama administration is coming out with new recommendations.

The Environmental Protection Agency says nearly 500,000 Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars built in the past seven year are intentionally violating clean air standards by using software that evades EPA emissions standards.

With California voters likely to consider legalizing recreational marijuana use next year, state lawmakers approved a package of legislation that would create the first statewide licensing and operating rules for pot growers and retail weed outlets since the state became the first to legalize medical marijuana in 1996.

Ten automakers have committed to the government to include automatic emergency braking in all new cars, a step safety advocates say could significantly reduce traffic deaths and injuries.

Food manufacturers must be more vigilant about keeping their operations clean under new government safety rules released Thursday in the wake of deadly foodborne illness outbreaks linked to ice cream, caramel apples, cantaloupes and peanuts.