The American health insurance system is no longer a neutral mechanism for spreading risk or paying for care. It has become a ...

It’s no secret that the U.S. health care system is in crisis; 70% of Americans say so, or that it at least has major problems. This has been consistent since 2000, reflecting a history of ...

Harry Truman's plan would have covered medical, hospital and nursing care for everyone, and created a federal health ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson, left, next to former President Harry S. Truman, signs into law the measure creating Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. AP Photo The Medicaid system has emerged as an early ...

Goozner is the former editor-in-chief and columnist at Modern Healthcare. Online vitriol isn’t pretty. But the mass schadenfreude that greeted the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson ...

In the wake of the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a conversation on the role of insurance companies in limiting access to necessary care has exploded online. While I do not ...

Millions will lose insurance as a result of the congressional rollback, leaving people stranded between financial ruin.

While Congress and President Trump debate how much the government should subsidize certain health insurance premiums, they are missing a far more important question: How can the U.S. rationalize our ...

For decades, I was a cog in the machine, part of a health care system that has drifted far from its original mission — to care for people. I worked tirelessly at the top health care organizations, ...

On Halloween, my sixteen-year-old daughter slipped and fell on some broken glass. She came home from a party with a nasty-looking gash on one of her fingers, and I persuaded her to go to a local ...