Consumer Driven Health Care

Women treated with chest radiation for cancer when they were girls have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than has been realized.

Maybe Im getting ahead of myself but maybe were actually becoming better health care consumers.

Its a good thing New York's called the Big Apple. If the state were nicknamed after, say, their pizza, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would've banned the moniker.

The Internal Revenue Service issued some guidelines on the $2,500 cap imposed on health care flexible spending accounts as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.

Health care spending is projected to grow at a historically low 7.5 percent for 2013, according to a report released Thursday from PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute.

About 13.5 million U.S. residents now have health coverage that is compatible with the health savings account (HSA) program, up 18% from the total recorded a year ago, according to America's Health Insurance Plans.

The House Ways and Means Committee plans to meet Thursday to mark up a collection of bills that could revamp health savings accounts (HSAs) and flexible spending accounts (FSAs).

Transparencys the new accountability. Or at least it should be.