Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Individuals with employer-sponsored commercial health insurance ...

The State Health Benefits Program that insures nearly 150,000 county and municipal employees in New Jersey is broke and headed for collapse next year, unless members agree to pay thousands of dollars ...

Federal food assistance and health insurance premiums have crept into the national conversation as the federal government shutdown approaches its second month. On this week’s “OPB Politics Now” we ...

Iowa farmer Aaron Lehman was already paying a hefty price for health insurance, but his premium is set to skyrocket in ...

Roughly two-thirds of Americans say the federal government should ensure that everyone has health care coverage, according to a new Pew Research survey . Americans, however, are split on how the ...

Dividing Americans into multiple risk pools increases health care costs. And it limits the ability to debate an insurance system almost nobody understands.

Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week. The annual enrollment window for millions of people to pick ...

Your Medicare, Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage won’t vanish during the government shutdown, but changes to some benefits and fewer government workers to help could still disrupt care for ...

This episode features Dustin Craik, Chief Financial Officer, Local Government Health Insurance Board. Here, he discusses his and his team’s focus on specialty drug trends, biosimilars that help drive ...

The recent government shutdown is centered on a dispute over extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Democrats are demanding the subsidies be renewed, while some Republicans argue they ...