Boost Your Score

Kim Lankford answers your questions on improving your credit rating, prolonging health-care coverage, retrieving college savings, and claiming the prescription-drug rebate.

Will Health Reform Affect My Plan?

Companies will see cost increases, and so will you.

Insurance for Boomerang Kids

Make sure adult children who move back home are covered.

Preventive Care, Electronic Medical Records Guidelines Set

The government's busy filling in the blanks on what employers, health providers and insurers need to do with health care reform.

Obama's "Failed" Presidency

Eighteen months into his first term, pundits and partisans are engaged in a shallow debate over how the president will be judged. They’re missing the point.

Genetic Medicine Finally Hitting Its Stride

Genetic analysis is reshaping how we treat cancer, lupus, osteoporosis and other diseases.

FAQs on the New High-Risk Pool

If you have been rejected for health coverage because of a preexisting medical condition, find out how the government's recently launched program can help.

A New Site to Help You Navigate Health Insurance

The government's HealthCare.gov provides information about public and private plans available to you.

Health Reform: Not a Done Deal?

Challenges seek to erase the law's mandate to buy coverage.

Health Care: Firms with Annual Benefit Limits Must Take Care

Allowable caps will be gradually raised, then barred altogether in 2014.

Two Costly Habits to Quit

New taxes on tanning and cigarettes are another reason to give up these habits.

A User's Guide to Medicare

You will get extra help with prescription-drug costs plus new medigap choices.

Medicare Sign-Up Rules

Follow the rules carefully when enrolling in Medicare.

Impact of Health Reform on Military Health Coverage

The law doesn't require Tricare to let children up to age 26 stay on their parents' plans -- but new legislation might.

FAQs about the Medicare Rebate

Health Law Likely to Add to
Employer Costs

Mandates kick in before any savings, but there are some things firms can do in the short term.

Getting Health Insurance on Your Own

You have some special options if your COBRA coverage is ending and you have preexisting conditions that make it difficult for you to get health insurance.

Health Savings Account Answers

This fact sheet explains the ins and outs of opening, funding and benefiting from health savings accounts.

Health Reform, Phase 1:
What You Will See When

Most changes are years away, but young adults, retirees and people with medical issues will benefit from the new law this year.

Gaming the New Rules of Health Insurance

People who can afford insurance but choose to go without it are thumbing their noses at society.

Take Advantage of Tax-Deferred Accounts

Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts let you set aside pre-tax dollars to pay out-of-pocket medical expenses.

Understand Your Health Insurance Options

We explain the alphabet soup of managed care, how to research your provider and the care it provides, and the best ways to pay for out-of-pocket medical costs.

What to Consider When Picking a Plan

Cost can be a key factor, but you also need to consider quality and continuity of care.

Fee-for-Service Health Coverage

You choose the doctor and the insurance picks up part or all of the tab.

Health Maintenance Organizations

You'll pay a flat monthly fee but little to no deductible. But if you go to a provider outside the plan, you probably will have to foot the bill.

Preferred-Provider Organizations

You can choose from a group of providers who\'ve contracted with your insurer to offer services at a discount rate. And there is more flexibility when it comes to seeing doctors outside the plan.

A Policy When You're On Your Own

Get tips on finding an affordable plan and learn how to control costs.

Two New Medigap Plans to Consider

These Medicare-supplement policies add some cost-sharing in return for lower premiums.

Keeping Adult Children Insured

Here's what you need to know about how the health-care reform law benefits families that want to keep their grown kids on their health policies.

The Quest for Health Insurance

Finding coverage when you're too young for Medicare can seem like an impossible dream.

Military Health Coverage and Health Reform

People receiving health benefits through TRICARE won't have to purchase additional coverage or pay a penalty when insurance is required for all in 2014.

Patients Pay Extra for Premium Care

Some cash upfront can get you to the head of the line.

Putting Adult Children Back on Your Health Plan

If your kids are too old to be covered by your policy, they may be able to get back on after the health-reform law takes effect.

New Grads and Health-Care Reform

Several insurers are letting adult children stay on their parents' policies after graduation.

A Tax on Health Benefits

Find out how employee health benefits will be taxed and how employees will be affected.

Beware of Health Care Reform Scams

The law doesn't require you to buy a new insurance policy right now.

How We Built Our Collection of Quick & Easy Financial Fixes

We guarantee that readers can swiftly execute and benefit from our 38 recipes for financial success, because we’ve already done so ourselves.

Health Care Reform: 13 Tax Changes on the Way

Here are 13 changes in the massive overhaul that could impact your tax bill, for better or worse.

What Health Care Reform Means for Medicare Drug Coverage

The new law provides rebate checks for people when they hit the doughnut hole in their prescription-drug coverage.

Health Care Reform and Roth Conversions

Converting to a Roth will increase your income and could force you to pay higher Medicare premiums.