About 1 in 7 Americans will spend at least $100,000 out of pocket for long-term care. Health insurance generally doesn't cover long-term care services, and Medicare doesn't cover most expenses. Not ...

The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

To address the gap between opportunity costs and cost-effectiveness thresholds, we must identify the marginal cost of a unit of health for health care systems. Amid efforts to reduce spending on ...

A survey shows employers expect a sharp increase in benefit costs for next year, and many will want workers to shoulder more of the burden. By Reed Abelson Employees of large and small companies are ...

If you or your parents are discussing and debating the merits of aging in place at home or moving into assisted living, it may be that you have a clear choice. Not everyone ages the same way, and you ...

Employers are preparing for the steepest rise in health benefit costs in more than a decade. According to Mercer's 2025 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, total health benefit costs ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...