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There is plenty of bad news about Obamacare. Premiums are set to skyrocket next year an average of 22 percent (a staggering…
BOSTON – A divide separates older Bostonians from younger city residents in terms of access, while there are also distinct differences in needs…
STATE HOUSE — With new regulations on overtime for personal care attendants now in effect, advocates gathered outside Gov. Charlie Baker's…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's health care tab this year is expected to surpass $10,000 per person for the first…
Imagine a public health program that reduces the incidences of childhood asthma. Or imagine another one that assigns a home visiting nurse…
BOSTON – About a year before funding is set to expire for a state trust fund aimed at preventing chronic health conditions, community…
It has been eight years since Congress passed a law requiring health insurers to provide Americans suffering from mental illness or substance…
Warning: This article contains spoilers BOSTON – This summer's romance flick "Me Before You" has a dark twist that…
BOSTON – A health-care innovation hub that will focus on developing digital technology for use in the delivery of medical services took…
BOSTON – The outgoing head of the health care agency whose funding will be drawn down to pay for an accord over health…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Tuesday he regrets remarks he made comparing long wait times at VA health care…
WASHINGTON – Both Republicans and Democrats support a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to send back to appeals courts cases challenging Obamacare…
BOSTON (AP) — A hospital that treated a man before he fatally stabbed two people and wounded several others at a home and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president's…
Expect insurers to seek significant premium increases under President Barack Obama's health care law, in a wave of state-level requests rippling across the country ahead of the political conventions this summer.
WASHINGTON – A statement from government lawyers that health plans could be modified to provide contraceptive care for women under special circumstances may…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an early general election warning for Donald Trump, Americans say they trust Democrat Hillary Clinton over the Republican businessman…
Still in the rippling wake of General Electric's January decision to move its headquarters from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Boston'…
STATE HOUSE — Ten years after the state passed landmark universal health care legislation, advocates are pushing lawmakers to consider adopting a single-…
While 95.7 percent of working-age Massachusetts adults have health insurance, almost half are having trouble taking advantage of that benefit,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Big companies are pushing back against proposed federal rules they say would require their medical plans to cover gender transition…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people who went without health insurance last year are now seeing fines more than double under President Barack Obama&…
BOSTON — Seeking federal dollars and more cost-controls, the Baker administration is reworking Medicaid on at least two fronts, moving toward population…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without…
BOSTON – With billions of dollars on the line, Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that he hopes to renegotiate a federal Medicaid waiver…
The rising cost and use of brand name prescription drugs has emerged over the past two years as the one of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked about…
BOSTON – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would create a state Office of Health Equity, which supporters…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of young adults healthy enough to think they don't need insurance face painful choices this year as…
BOSTON – When Carl and Julie Stone discovered four years ago that their third child, Josiah, would be born with trisomy 21, or…
BOSTON – Spiraling health care costs pose a grave fiscal threat to families, threatening to eat up as much as 45 percent of…
WASHINGTON – The annual March for Life is attracting a new crowd. In recent years, the event has drawn – and reached – groups that…
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which bills itself as the leading nonprofit provider of reproductive health services in the U.S., officially…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protecting his signature domestic achievement, President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed Republican-inspired legislation to repeal his health care law,…
