Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week. Medicare proposes new transplant system rules that might ...

Over the past century, the proportion of health-care services purchased through insurance—as opposed to directly by patients—has surged, thanks to the exemption of employer-sponsored benefits from ...

Open enrollment has begun for many employees, as well as consumers using Affordable Care Act and Medicare health insurance plans. Health care premiums are rising 6.5% on average for employees, ...

Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale. The debate over whether to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies has consumed lawmakers over the past two ...