Medical Costs

Swamped with patients and hit hard by state cuts to Medicaid, community health clinics struggle to make ends meet in the recession.

Keeping individual health information private is good thing, but so is aggregating that data to improve care in general. Can those competing good ideas find a happy medium?

Contrary to popular belief, people who live longer are healthier and have fewer medical bills. Obese people, however, are living longer with health care costs increasing at an alarming rate. So efforts to prolong vitality are not, in themselves, an economic Frankenstein.

While it’s not a bad idea to pay attention to the various costs of your medical care, the president of the Center for Advancing Health argues that haggling over costs is not a long-term solution to spiraling expenses.

Kirk Nielsen takes the pulse of the nation's emergency health care costs by passing out and getting gouged.