Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans most of them in the middle class will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place.

Monthly premiums for popular Medicare Advantage insurance plans are rising by only $1.47 next year, to an average of $32.59.

America's health care system is unsustainable. It's not one problem, but three combined: high cost, uneven quality and millions uninsured.

It sounds like good news: Annual premiums for job-based family health plans went up only 4 percent this year.

The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign.

Speakers at the Democratic National Convention portrayed President Barack Obama's presidency in glowing terms Tuesday evening, but sometimes left out important details or embellished his record.

Some of President Barack Obama's former advisers are proposing major changes aimed at controlling health care costs as political uncertainty hovers over his health law.

A look at claims made during the Republican Convention and how they adhere to the facts.