Posted by Admin | 8:53 AM

The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday's opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under ...

Labels: Affordable Care Act, economy, Health Care Costs, health costs, health insurance, health journalism, health reform, insurance exchange, Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, politics

Posted by Admin | 7:58 AM

CDC chart; confidence interval (or error margin) means that  95 percent of the time, the result for the entire U.S. population would be with...

Labels: cigarettes, health costs, health rankings, smoking, smoking ban, smoking ordinances, tobacco prevention, tobacco-free

Posted by Admin | 4:49 AM

Without dissent, the state Senate approved a bill Wednesday, Feb. 13, that would grant Christian health cost-sharing organization Medi-Share...

Labels: church and state, health costs, health insurance, insurance, legislation, legislature, religion, state government; General Assembly

Posted by Admin | 10:10 AM

The more you raise cigarette taxes, the less people smoke. That presumption was confirmed this week in a study by the Washington University ...

Labels: cigarette tax, cigarettes, diabetes, health costs, lung cancer, research, smoking, tobacco