Health Insurance and Costs

Politico's Paul Demko looks at how three states — Washington, Mississippi and Idaho — are pursuing divergent paths under the new ACA landscape.

Puerto Rico was facing a health care crisis long before Hurricane Maria hit last year. The storm has made the problems much worse.

It has been very difficult to compare the quality of care delivered by California's Medicaid providers. A new effort seeks to change that.

A yearlong effort to obtain basic Medicaid provider data in L.A. was rebuffed. Some health care leaders shut their doors gently. Others slammed them shut.

The need for more affordable coverage is real, but association health plans have had a dismal track record through the years.

“This is really an issue that you can explore in your state no matter what,” said WSJ health policy reporter Stephanie Armour.

One solution to allay the high numbers may be a pilot project the Los Angeles County Fire Department is trying out: a “health care on wheels.”

A Los Angeles County Fire Department pilot project is testing out a a mobile integrated health care unit. The goal is to see if a “healthcare on wheels” model can help alleviate crowded emergency departments

Emergency departments at three hospitals stood out in all of California as the ones that were the most visited in 2016. They couldn’t be more different.

ER visits grew an average of 4 percent every year from 2010 to 2016.