health care

The cost of caring for Americans diagnosed with some form of autism totals more than $236 Billion dollars per year. That's close to what the federal government currently pays in interest on the national debt.

Gov. Deval Patrick is delivering his final $36.4 billion state budget plan to Beacon Hill lawmakers, which proposes increasing spending by 4.9 percent over the current fiscal year.       Patrick said the 2015 fiscal year spending plan expands early education, helps close the achievement gap in schools, ensures affordable health care, and addresses youth and urban violence...

Massachusetts should save hundreds of millions under the federal Affordable Care Act, but some workers could end up paying more for coverage.

Obama Care is being blamed for job layoffs and future spikes in health care costs.

House GOP leaders appear likely to give tea party lawmakers a chance to use a routine temporary government funding bill to try to muscle the Democratic-controlled Senate into derailing President Barack Obama's health care law.

Most companies that make dietary supplements have violated Food and Drug Administration rules. The man who heads the FDA's Dietary Supplement Programs says 70% of the nations supplement companies have broken agency rules over the past five years...

President Barack Obama is enrolling some star power to promote health care. Obama stopped by a private White House meeting Monday with celebrities including singer Jennifer Hudson and actors Amy Poehler, Michael Cera and Kal Penn.

Three years after campaigning on a vow to "repeal and replace" President Barack Obama's health care law, House Republicans have yet to advance an alternative for the system they have voted more than three dozen times to abolish in whole or in part.

So how does Massachusetts stack up financially with the way the rest of the states in the country are run?

While campaigning over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that while not liking all of it, he would keep some parts of Obamacare.