Insurance is a con. Worse than Social Security, even – because you pay in and (normally) never get anything back. Consider: You pay say $800 a year to insure your car. Over a ten year period that comes to $8000. Gone. Out the window. …

Avon taxpayers are questioning why the school district is offering $1 health insurance to school board members while asking voters to approve a referendum.

Two economists argue that the uninsured are far more sensitive to changes in the cost of health insurance than the insured are.

A state advocacy group is questioning the candor surrounding a House bill that gives the state authority to regulate the health insurance market by establishing the North Carolina Benefit Exchange.

Every year, health insurance premiums and medical care costs take a bigger bite of the average household’s budget. But you can cut these costs without sacrificing good care.

Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation Thursday increasing the state income tax deduction that small businesses get for supplying health insurance for their employees.