Healthy lifestyle choices could cut health-insurance premiums in half for some people under a provision of a health-reform bill working its way through the Senate, the Boston Globe reports. The detail hasn’t drawn much notice, despite the fact... 

When the biggest retailer in the country says employers should be required to contribute to their employees’ health-care costs, even as business groups are pushing hard against such an idea, there’s sure to be a fight. So, two weeks after... 

Massachusetts’s universal health plan, long discussed as a possible model for the nation, is getting a $115 million haircut. Faced with lower revenues and a growing number of citizens who lost their jobs and their health insurance, the state didn’t... 

President Obama still supports having a government-backed health-insurance plan compete against private insurers. But if Congress passes a bill without a public plan, he might sign it. He discussed the subject at some length at yesterday’s press... 

Today brings the last of a long string of Andrew Cuomo announcements about insurers agreeing to change the way they calculate payments for people who get health care from out-of-network providers. In what the New York attorney general called the “final... 

Medical costs will grow at a slightly slower rate next year — but the growth will still outpace inflation and workers’ pay, according to a new report from the health wonks at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The medical cost trend — the measure... 

Here’s a Health Blog item that manages to combine two popular subjects in the health-care world: fraud and patient-privacy violations. A guy who used to work in the billing department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. was sentenced to prison... 

President Obama speaks before the American Medical Association today, the nation’s biggest doctors’ group that has already come out against aspects of Democrats’ ideas for a government-run health-plan option , but which is less of a political... 

President Obama says a public health-insurance option to compete with private insurers would help keep private insurers honest. Opponents say a public plan would eventually drive private insurers out of business. Could a member-run health-care cooperative... 

We’re sensing a pattern here. In 2004, the state-subsidized Oregon Health Plan had to stop enrolling new members due to money woes; the state decided to add 3,000 new members last March but had to pick them by lottery , out of a pool of about 80,000...