It might be easier to make sense of the recent fatal shooting of an insurance CEO, an act with ominous overtones about health care costs and insurance coverage, if any one aspect of health-care ...

Profitability on insurance benefits is seen falling more than expected as costs rise, while Medicaid membership is now expected to grow much less than previous forecasts Humana's stock falls as ...

Health care costs surged 8.6% from 2022 to 2023. Pressure mounts for lawmakers to rein in costs. Between 2021 and 2023, premiums grew 12.1% and health insurance member cost-sharing grew 12.9%. BOSTON ...

Long-term care can be costly, extending well beyond $100,000. Yet, financial advisors say many households aren't prepared to manage the expense. "People don't plan for it in advance," said Carolyn ...

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 ...

Along with the personal consumption expenditures data released Friday — which the Federal Reserve thinks of as a proxy for inflation — we got some granular numbers on a big factor in the prices we see ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security ...

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 ...

Small businesses are shouldering disproportionately higher healthcare costs as prices continue to climb, but they're refusing to cut their workforce's access to benefits. Processing Content The median ...

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 ...