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• 2017 — a year of disaster

  11:48 AM ET Tue, 26 Dec 2017

  2017 was a devastating year with natural disasters such as catastrophic floods, wildfires and earthquakes affecting millions.

• National Obamacare enrollment could match prior season's tally despite strong headwinds

  5:22 PM ET Fri, 22 Dec 2017

  Enrollment on the federal Obamacare marketplace was surprisingly strong, and a number of state markets are seeing higher sign-ups.

• Obamacare enrollment blows away expectations at nearly 9 million, despite short sign-up window

  4:55 PM ET Thu, 21 Dec 2017

  This year there was a reduced enrollment season, and cuts to outreach budgets by the Trump administration.

• Congress is dealing 2 big blows to Obamacare

  5:42 PM ET Wed, 20 Dec 2017

  Sens. Susan Collins and Lamar Alexander abandoned efforts to force a year-end budget bill to restore federal payments to insurers.

• Investor group buys Talcott Resolution in $2 billion deal   

  5:17 PM ET Thu, 21 Dec 2017

  Bob Diamond, Atlas Merchant Capital founder and CEO, and David Schamis, Atlas Merchant Capital CIO, provides insight to the acquisition of The Hartford's life insurance and annuity business.

• There's a good chance that you can still enroll in an Obamacare plan

  10:18 AM ET Wed, 20 Dec 2017

  Almost half of U.S. residents live in areas that are still eligible to sign up for health insurance plans, at least in special cases.

• Hospital giants vie for patients in effort to fend off new rivals

  11:03 AM ET Tue, 19 Dec 2017

  Health care is being rocked by deals and mergers, the New York Times Reports.

• Humana, private-equity firms buy Kindred Healthcare for $4 billion

  9:00 AM ET Tue, 19 Dec 2017

  Humana and two private-equity firms agreed to buy home health-care and long-term care operator Kindred Healthcare for about $4 billion.

• Massachusetts and NY probing MetLife over unpaid pensions

  7:37 AM ET Tue, 19 Dec 2017

  Massachusetts and New York regulators said they are probing MetLife after the insurer failed to pay pensions to potentially thousands of people.

• Health treatment for blacks often different than whites at end of life

  4:47 PM ET Mon, 18 Dec 2017

  Another study found higher rates of discrimination among older blacks receiving health treatment for chronic conditions than whites.

• Billionaire pharma couple were strangled, case being treated as possible homicide, Toronto police say

  4:32 PM ET Mon, 18 Dec 2017

  Barry Sherman, who founded generic drugmaker Apotex in 1974, and his wife, Honey, were found dead in their Toronto home on Friday.

• Humana in talks to buy acute care provider Kindred Healthcare with two private-equity firms

  5:05 AM ET Mon, 18 Dec 2017

  U.S. health insurer Humana is in advanced talks to acquire acute care provider Kindred Healthcare in partnership with private equity firms.

• Find out now how big your Social Security check will be next year

  6:31 PM ET Thu, 21 Dec 2017

  A Social Security cost-of-living increase and Medicare could change your benefits in 2018.

• GOP tax bill expands medical expense deduction for two years

  10:24 AM ET Sat, 16 Dec 2017

  The final bill would let itemizers deduct medical expenses in 2017 and 2018 that exceed 7.5 percent of their adjusted gross income.

• Cramer Remix: Lending is my biggest worry in this market

  7:33 PM ET Fri, 15 Dec 2017

  Jim Cramer highlighted his one big fear going in to 2018.

• Centene unit fined $1.5 million, allowed to resume sale of Obamacare plans in Washington

  7:40 PM ET Fri, 15 Dec 2017

  Centene's unit had admitted having inadequate networks of covered doctors for its Obamacare plans in Washington.