Affordability is a widespread problem even as fewer Americans go without health insurance. The amount people spend directly on health care (not including insurance premiums), known as “out-of-pocket” costs, has been growing faster than inflation and this has several important implications.
The number of food recalls has risen steadily across the United States in recent years, and a new report found they impact consumers in California more than any other state.
A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel Tower as Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century Friday, with a four-hour-long, rule-breaking opening ceremony that unfurled along the Seine River.