An uneasy fact emerges from the two dozen mass shootings in this country over the past decade: The majority of those pulling the trigger have been severely mentally ill and not receiving treatment.

The Senate followed the lead of their House colleagues Wednesday with a unanimous vote to cap out-of-pocket rates for so-called specialty tier drugs.…

Some of the 14 states running their own health insurance marketplaces lag behind the federal site in meeting enrollment goals. States doing better kept the IT goals relatively simple, reviewers say.

Health insurance markets vary across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each one is implementing the health law with varying degrees of failure, success, enthusiasm and hostility. The differences in sign-ups tell the tale.

As if a visit to the doctor is not stressful enough, many Marylanders have trouble understanding the doctor or making the doctor understand them. That’s…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Karen Hosler talk about the O'Malley administration's decision to bring in another contractor to fix the state's health care…

What did he know and when did he know it?Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown says he came to work one day to discover a "mess." A mess for medical insurance seekers,…

Anthony Brown spoke at a press conference today in Baltimore about the botched rollout of the state's health insurance exchange website. Karen Hosler…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Karen Hosler talk about Governor O'Malley's pre-Thanksgiving press conference on the state's health care exchange and the…

After a rocky start, the HealthCare.gov website is supposed to be able to handle 50,000 simultaneous users by the end of the month. That figure would represent about double the site's current capacity. An expected surge in demand will present a new test.