health care costs

  • A person uses scissors to cut a dollar bill in half.
    cancer

    Discovery could slash a common cancer drug’s price

    "Looking ahead, once we refine the process further, we expect to be able to reduce the cost [of the cancer drug Taxol] by half."
  • A doctor wraps a bandage around a child's arm.
    children's health

    Making emergency rooms ‘pediatric ready’ saves lives

    Making hospital EDs ready to provide basic health care to kids could cost as little as $4 to $8 per patient while improving survival rates.
  • A pharmacist speaks with a customer from behind a counter.
    health care costs

    Pharmacists treating minor illness could cut health care costs

    Greater use of pharmacists to treat minor illnesses could potentially save millions of dollars in health care costs, researchers report.
  • A person opens an injection pen for a new diabetes and obesity drug.
    health care costs

    High prices for new diabetes drugs are reason for alarm

    "As with insulin, our patients are facing parallel challenges in accessing other new non-insulin diabetes and anti-obesity medications."
  • An older couple go over health care bills while sitting at a table together with a tablet computer.
    health care costs

    Costs top health worries among older adults

    Health-related costs top older adults' concerns for people their age, a new poll finds.
  • An orange stethoscope over a stack of dollar bills on a pink background.
    health care costs

    Rising health insurance costs have ‘robbed’ American workers

    "Health insurance should help people, not hold them back, or push them further behind when it comes to wages and income equality."
  • An elderly mother and younger daughter sit while holding hands and talking.
    dementia

    Dementia takes a toll on finances and family

    Dementia affects more than the brain. A new study shows the toll it takes on a person's wallet—and on family caregivers, too.
  • A stethoscope wrapped around a pile of one dollar bills on a white background.
    health care costs

    Listen: How every American could get health insurance

    In this podcast episode, Katherine Baicker lays out an innovative blueprint for health care—not to tinker with the system, but to redesign it.
  • A farm worker bends down to tamp down some soil in a field.
    agriculture

    Obamacare has helped farm workers get and stay healthy

    Passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 has helped farm workers get better medical care—and avoid trips to the emergency room.
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    health care costs

    Health care costs increasingly outpace employee insurance

    Health care is growing less affordable for American adults—particularly women—with employer-sponsored health insurance, research finds.
  • A woman delivers a meal to an elderly woman at home.
    food

    Medically tailored meals can boost health and save money

    Expanding programs that prep medically tailored meals for seriously ill patients could help avoid 1.6 million hospitalizations yearly.
  • black and white photo shows man holding money in front of face
    debt

    Asthma, anxiety, and more linked to medical debt

    Asthma, heart disease, lung disease, anxiety, and other mood disorders are all associated with elevated rates of medical debt, research finds.