This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, provides health insurance to adults, children and families with low incomes. To get Medi-Cal, you have to make less than about $1,800 per month if you're ...

Health insurance can be costly. First, you pay premiums for coverage for medical care and prescription medication. Then you often face out-of-pocket costs when you access care. These expenses may ...

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Robert Hays, an industrial electronics salesman in Arkansas, thought he’d purchased conventional medical insurance. So did Essie Nath, 67, a retired cafeteria worker in Wyoming. So did Martin Liz, 47, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. To understand why access to affordable health insurance has ...

More state farm bureaus are offering cheap health insurance plans, but they don’t comply with Affordable Care Act requirements. Subsidies for the Affordable Care Act are set to expire at the end of ...

Republicans succeeded in quashing Democrats’ efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsides — at least so far. Now it’s time for Republicans to put forward their own health care ...