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The problem of 8-figure hospital paychecks and near-poor patients

The biggest problem besetting the healthcare industry is money. The United States spends twice as much per capita as any other industrialized nation on healthcare, with middling results and huge

Insurers gain 1M new customers in young adults

Young adults have become the fastest growing segment of the population to get healthcare coverage now that the reform law allows parents to cover their adult children as dependents on family

COBRA coverage adoption falls short despite subsidy

Although the federal government heavily subsidized the COBRA benefits of those who lost their jobs as part of last year's huge stimulus package, cost spurred coverage uptake less than originally

Texas, New Mexico lead the nation in rates of uninsured

Texas has earned the dubious distinction as the state with the highest share (26.8 percent) of uninsured people, according to the Washington Post's analysis of recently released census data . It is