Legacy Topic: Health Care

Many small insurers expected a bonanza of new customers when Healthcare.gov began on Oct. 1, but the website's problems made the first weeks very quiet for them.

Instead of admitting Medicare patients quickly, hospitals are "observing" them for as long as two days.

The Gross Domestic Product doesn’t count volunteer work at all, and that includes unpaid care-giving for a sick loved one. But with such high costs for elderly home care, there’s often no alternative, as Marketplace’s Chris Farrell says.

The question for hospital executives in Camden, N.J., and around the country, is how to manage a new wave of patients.

What are the technical challenges in fixing the back end of healthcare.gov?

The claim is that healthcare.gov is fixed to the point that it works for 9 out 10 consumers.

The White House's self-imposed deadline for healthcare.gov to be "working smoothly" for the "vast majority of users" is Saturday

The roll-out of Obamacare isn't the first time the government has done something this big.

December 1 is a big day for the Obama administration's implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the nation's biggest at-home DNA test kit company