Health Care
Vox’s coverage of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare-for-all, emergency room fees, and everything else you need to know about the health care industry.
North Carolina’s new abortion ban exposes the GOP’s failures to shore up government assistance for parents and children.
Medicaid work requirements are really just spending cuts in disguise.
A hidden experiment in universal health care is about to end.
How pharmacy benefit managers found themselves the targets of a bipartisan push on drug prices.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants more mental health resources after the Allen mall mass shooting. It’s not a real solution.
A new report finds a lack of connection is killing us — and suggests ways to fix it.
Another measure that would have completely banned abortion in South Carolina also failed this week.
Some more people might get jobs. What about those who don’t?
The new law adds to Republicans’ messaging headache on abortion.
Democrats are preparing to fight House Republicans’ plan for Medicaid work requirements.
The justices hand down the first decision in the mifepristone litigation saga that is not completely unhinged.
The flawed assumptions of the House GOP’s revived plan for work requirements.
Almost half of the immigrants eligible for DACA are uninsured. Biden is trying to fix that.
The GOP’s backup plan to slow down medication abortion, explained.
Some Democrats are pushing for the FDA to ignore a court ruling suspending the agency’s approval of mifepristone.
Rising demand has collided with restricted supply — with consequences for millions of patients.
Some families are still spending thousands of dollars per year on lifesaving medication. Policymakers are finally doing something about it.
The FDA’s approval of the first over-the-counter nasal spray against opioid overdose is a good step. But much more needs to be done to fight the opioid crisis.
A notoriously partisan judge has launched a new attack on one of Obamacare’s key provisions.
Guns kill more young Americans than cars now, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Republicans just got a painful reminder that political stunts can backfire.
With potential vaccines still in development, prevention is key.
With abortion access already limited, some states are trying to impose extreme penalties for the procedure.
How do we ensure no person dies as a result of bringing life into this world?
Long Covid isn’t as much of a mystery as it used to be.
Doctors in red states across the country are too scared to perform legal abortions. A Texas lawsuit seeks to fix that in the biggest red state.
Medicare is facing big challenges, but it’s not on the verge of bankruptcy.
The price of insulin has skyrocketed, but now one major drug company will limit patients’ costs.
Some hospital CEOs quadrupled their salaries in a few years while nurses’ pay largely stayed stagnant.
How bad is the East Palestine derailment, really?
Sen. Rick Scott wants every government program — even entitlements — to expire after 5 years unless Congress approves them again.
Before you’d heard of Ozempic, constant TV ads made sure you knew the Ozempic song.
The drug’s cost crisis is spurring states to pursue a public version of an essential medication.
The H5N1 avian flu virus isn’t a major human threat today. Here’s what it’d take to become one.
Linda Prine, a physician and co-founder of the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline, describes the new realities for patients in states where the procedure is banned.
This year’s weird, bad cold-and-flu-and-Covid season might have peaked.
We are only beginning to see the legal fallout from the Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.
The end of Roe v. Wade was a decades-long goal. It’s not clear what’s next for the movement.
The biggest questions about the newest Covid-19 vaccines are still unanswered.
Study: UK patients died more often and were readmitted more frequently after hospital mergers.