House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that Medicare has “serious problems” that would need to be addressed when Congress moves to repeal and replace President Obama’s health-care reform law — a signal that he is willing to immediately enter the treacherous politics of entitlement reform and perhaps break with President-elect Donald Trump.

Insurers charge that hospitals and other health providers are using third-party groups to help some low-income patients buy marketplace plans, which bring higher reimbursement rates. Try not to blow a gasket when you read this.

Another inconvenient truth nobody talks about.

MetLife is retiring the lovable Peanuts character Snoopy, who has appeared in MetLife print and TV ads for more than three decades. Snoopy’s ouster is part of a marketing shift that includes a new corporate emblem and getting rid of the line “Get Met. It Pays.”

Doctor and hospital switching is a recurring scramble for these consumers who face rising premiums and plan exits.

Jamie Richardson's dog Muddy tore a ligament in the woods, but a major pet insurance company refuses coverage for the injury until Go Public gets involved.

Minnesota will let health insurers increase their rates by at least 50 percent next year to protect the state's Obamacare health insurance individual market from "collapse," the state announced Friday

There is widespread support for a variety of actions in order to keep costs down including requiring drug companies to release information to the public on how they set their drug prices, allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug companies.

Cost pressures may induce patients to forego needed care, some worry.

A national survey of employer health benefits shows how high deductibles have shot up.

Stories of insurance companies refusing to pay out have existed for about as long as insurance companies themselves. Yet few can be as surprising, elaborate, or involve as many bizarre details as the case of British expat Christopher Robinson and the fire that destroyed his $1.6 million mansion in New Zealand. Mr Robinson, in his late sixties, moved to a remote part of North Island near Kerikeri with his wife and two children in 2005.

This dog don't hunt.

The best argument for a single-payer health plan is the recent decision by giant health insurer Aetna to bail out next year from 11 of the 15 states where it sells Obamacare plans.

Several companies, citing financial losses, stop offering plans, which may leave some markets with only one insurer.

Obamacare is in big trouble.

Like clockwork, Sara and James Cook paid $452 a month for life insurance. That is, until a letter arrived last year telling the elderly Georgia couple the premiums on the policy they’d had for 25 years were rising sharply.

With almost $2 billion in losses this year, big insurance companies are pulling out of the health-care program.

Health insurer Aetna announced late Monday that it is dropping Obamacare insurance in 69% of the counties and 11 of 15 states where it currently offers plans. The third largest health insurance company becomes the latest to pull back from the plans offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it cites heavy losses. Here's what that means for patients, insurers, the ACA and the company's fight with the government over its effort to acquire Humana. What does this mean for patients?