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 American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

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 ...

A large portion of U.S. employees with health insurance are skipping or delaying care because they can't afford it, jeopardizing their well-being and productivity at work. Processing Content That's ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...