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.
We have the tools to end the virus. The question is whether we’ll abandon them.
As baby boomers age, caregivers are often squeezed caring for parents and children at the same time. They need help.
The next phase of America’s drug crisis is here.
We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem.
Health care in America is too expensive. But you can make your physician your ally.
You need a primary care appointment. Should you see an MD — or NP?
How to think about long-term use, dependence, and withdrawal — according to a professional.
William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. We’re marking his death by letting measles come back.
Why another big swing at health care reform is coming.
It’s a weird time to talk about contraceptives. Here’s what the debate is missing.
Research has found that a routine vaccine slows aging and cuts dementia risk.
This undersung service saves Americans $3.1 billion every year. Why aren’t we funding them more?
Yes, food can be medicine — just not the way RFK Jr. means it.
Here’s what ChatGPT Health can actually tell you — and what it can’t.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
Oops.
8 ways the administration has undermined data collection this year.
Yes, there is a downside to GLP-1 drugs — if you aren’t careful.
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
Trump says he supports IVF. That’s about to be tested.
Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.
RFK Jr. and his supporters are asking the wrong questions about these medications.
Millions of Americans will soon go without insurance. We spoke with some of them.
Another open enrollment, another eye-popping premium increase. Why?
The Republican justices find something they care about more than they care about religion.
My eyes are part of my body. Why do I have separate vision benefits?
Choosing health insurance in the US is notoriously difficult. Let this guide help.
One of the Democrats’ best political issues is to defend to Affordable Care Act. Is it worth defending?
An obscure health insurance alternative is seeing tremendous growth. But there’s a catch.
More than half of seniors will sign up for a private version of Medicare this open enrollment. What happened?
How we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up.
The president earned positive coverage nonetheless for proposals that won’t help most patients.
The diehard MAGA lawmaker’s new fight with the GOP, explained.
The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now?
The Republican justices seem eager to kill state bans on anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy.
And can Trump actually do something about it?
The president’s new plan to slash drug prices is “a splashy announcement without a lot of substance.”
Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.
A pediatrician on why we should trust the vaccine schedule — even when Trump officials don’t.
Trump is blaming Tylenol for autism. Here’s the context he’s missing.