In an Axios column, Drew Altman from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at total family spending for health including taxes and health benefits, and why people need to understand it to assess proposals like Medicare-for-All. Read the understanding health care spending column. Kaiser has created a calculator to help families learn what they pay, both directly […]

We often say health insurance premiums are expensive because health care is expensive. And prescription drugs are a big part of that expense. Here’s an NPR story about a woman who lives with MS. She lives in San Francisco, but the story is true for people throughout Minnesota as well.

This Wall Street Journal story about the cost vs price of knee replacements is getting a lot of comments (527 and counting) and letters to the editor, too. Here’s a PDF of the story if you don’t have your WSJ subscription handy.

Medical bills for prescription drugs for people who get care through Medicaid are tens of billions of dollars each year for states across the country. The bills nearly doubled between 2008 and 2016. NPR looks at why.

All 50 states and the District of Columbia were scored on more than 40 categories.