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The health care system in America has been set up, thanks to decades of government and private sector incentives, to be all about treatment, not prevention.

Now, Merck is feeling the effects of that mindset on preventative care with one of its drugs called Proscar, which has been proven to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Doctors aren't prescribing it, according to a new survey.

The plan to overhaul the health care system would not eliminate the extra tax levied on domestic partner benefits.

The momentous vote the House is set to take on Sunday would make far-reaching changes in the American health care system.

On Sunday, the House is set to vote on an historic overhaul of the nation's health care system. It will also take up an issue that will get far less attention but could affect the wallets of millions of Americans.

There's a group of people who really love the U.S. health care system -- the fraudsters, scammers and organized criminal gangs who are bilking the system of as much as $100 billion a year.

While the U.S. health care system reportedly wastes about $700 billion a year, Congress isn't focusing on cutting out the waste in its overhaul legislation.

Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

In his prime-time address to Congress this evening, President Barack Obama will lay out his plan for overhauling the health-care system.

And he hasn't given up on the public option. Tamara Keith has a preview.

--This is the first installment in a series of health care columns by Fortune editor at large Shawn Tully.

Lawmakers are still far from consensus on how to fix the health care system. So it's too soon to know exactly what reform would mean for individual Americans.

Health care economist Glenn Melnick talks with Kai Ryssdal about challenges to reforming the health care system, how to get it done, and the costs of making changes.