Americans’ confidence in health care is up, according to Thomson Reuters’ latest Healthcare Indexes: Consumer Confidence. Overall, Thomson Reuters finds that healthcare confidence rose 12% between March and July 2009.Americans’ confidence in their ability to pay for health care in the “next three months” increased by 18% in the four month period. Furthermore, more Americans [...]

Americans are growing increasingly concerned about covering health care costs in the future. Those people age 55-64 are most concerned, with rising concerns among seniors. Furthermore, women are more concerned about health costs (recent and future) than men, as are people with lower education, income, and fair or poor health status. Not surprisingly, uninsured people [...]

“The cause of my life,” he said, was health care ensured for all Americans. His health care legislative passion began in 1966 as he learned about the challenges facing Boston residents in public housing and their lack of access to health care. These residents were meant to receive health care at the city’s teaching hospitals, [...]

Health plan cost trends will increase more than four times more than the annual increase in the average hourly wage of American workers in 2010. It’s the same ol’ song into 2010 as health cost trends for plans will see double-digit increases as high as 13.3% for fee-for-service (FFS) plans. Even the most tightly managed [...]