Legacy Topic: Health Care

A trustee report on the fiscal health of Medicare and Social Security will allow political parties to spin their message.

After a yearlong experiment, Medicare will start shopping like the rest of the federal government. It will use a competitive bidding process for medical supplies.

Every little thing your doctor does has a special code attached, with a dollar sign. Codes were supposed to make things simpler. Instead, they've touched off an expensive arms race between doctors, hospitals and insurers.

Express Scripts is looking to close a deal to takeover Medco Health Solutions this week. The combined companies will handle the prescription drugs of 135 million Americans. What effect will that have on pharmacy drug prices?

Today is the final day the Supreme Court will hear arguments about the legality of the Obama administration's health care overhaul. The Justices will be looking at severability, of what happens if the individual mandate is struck down.

The main question on day three of the Supreme Court health care hearings: Should the whole health care reform law be scrapped?

Doctors across America give very different takes on the Affordable Care Act, aspects of which are now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Can the government force Americans to buy health insurance? That's the big question at the Supreme Court today.

Can the government force uninsured individuals to buy health insurance? It's known as the individual mandate, and it could soon be declared unconstitutional.