The CBO says three or four million people would enroll in the new, government-backed insurance plan created by the Senate health-care bill . That low figure isn’t terribly surprising. CBO said about six million people would enroll in the public... 

The numbers are starting to come out on the health bill crafted by Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and they appear to hit the main targets set by President Obama. Here are early highlights: The bill would cost $849 billion over the next decade, according... 

There aren’t enough bodies to go around for everyone who needs a steady supply of cadavers for training and experiments. That shortage is helping turn the process of procuring cadavers into a functioning market, says a Harvard professor. Most cadavers... 

Rising medical costs, higher unemployment and a rapidly aging population are putting the health-care system under tremendous financial strain. This all sounds close to home but a story in today’s WSJ says those problems are confronting health care... 

The House health-care bill has caps on how much health-insurance policies can require consumers to pay out of pocket. But there’s an exception in the fine print: balance billing. Balance billing typically happens when a patient goes to a doctor who... 

An article in today’s WSJ goes through the numbers explaining why restricting insurance coverage for abortions as now being debated on Capitol Hill would do little in practical terms to change the affordability of abortion for the vast majority of... 

As the Senate gets ready to begin floor debate on the health-care overhaul, two players with different roles come in for media attention this morning. All eyes in the health-care arena are on Douglas W. Elmendorf, head of the Congressional Budget Office,... 

It’s no secret that big pharma laboratories have done a poor job discovering new medicines in recent years. There’s been a litany of high-profile failures (see here and here , for example). As a result, many inside and outside the industry... 

Drug and device companies, along with other industry players, spend about $1 billion a year to fund the continuing medical education classes doctors have to take to keep their licenses current. We may soon get more insight into how that money flows:... 

We’re waiting along with everybody else to see what’s in the health-care bill Harry Reid will soon bring to the Senate floor. So we’ve been interested to read a couple stories out of Washington this week looking at what new taxes Reid...