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 ...

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 classic cost-disease cure is to “productize” what used to be a service by substituting scalable goods. But in health care, the opportunity lies not in replacing services with goods but in raising ...

There is growing discussion about enhancing climate policy efficiency by prioritizing health, with expectations for including health co-benefits in the next round of nationally determined contribution ...

Readers, including health professionals, offer their analyses. To the Editor: Re “The Biggest Cause of High Health Care Spending,” by Zack Cooper (Opinion guest essay, May 7): As a physician, a health ...

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 ...

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 ...