Health care services paid by commercial insurance and Medicare programs cost 5.28% for the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, according to the S&P Indices.

Cost-cutting and shrinking costs suggest the average increase in employer health benefit costs will rise next year at the lowest rate in a more than a decade.

The majority of middle-income baby boomers worry most about health care expenses, inflation and outliving their money, with women worrying more than men, according to a new report.

Nearly three-fourths of American workers lack plans to cover their health care costs in retirement, and most workers lack any clarity about what those costs could be to them when they retire, a new survey finds.

The majority of employers are taking a “wait and see” approach toward their employee benefits programs, delaying any action to respond to the likely reduction in plan design flexibility brought on by federal health reform, a new study finds.

The argument that everyone must have health insurance so that we who are insured don’t end up paying the medical bills for those who aren’t insured has been repeated by so many people so many times that it has become an irrefutable truth. That is why Obamacare’s linchpin provision requires all of us to have health insurance by 2014.

Medical malpractice cases have no effect on health care costs, a South Florida personal injury and medical malpractice law firm said.

Diabetes and prediabetes will account for 10% of total health care spending by the end of the decade, a new analysis suggests, noting that spending on the disease will reach $500 billion annually, compared to $194 billion this year.

The majority of baby boomers feel stress about the future of costs of their retirement after seeing their investments take a bath in the market collapse of 2008.