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.
How will we know if the omicron variant is actually a big deal?
The Court doesn’t have to use the words “Roe v. Wade is overruled.”
Health insurance premiums could spike in 2022, experts warn.
Democrats want to lower drug costs for commercial health plans — if the Byrd Rule will let them.
A new study found improving public transportation makes it easier for people to make it to their doctor appointments.
The Biden administration wants to protect millions from Covid-19, but it faces an uphill fight in a GOP-dominated judiciary.
Burnout, vaccine hesitancy, and plum traveling gigs are making it harder for hospitals to hire the nurses they need.
A win for Democrats on prescription drugs has been decades in the making.
Most Supreme Court justices seem to understand that SB 8 is a direct attack on the Constitution.
Democrats’ plans for public health funding fall far short of what experts say is necessary.
A Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 could be authorized by early November.
Three big questions about booster shots, answered.
The Court still won’t stop Texas from banning abortions, but it wants to bring this saga to a final resolution quickly.
Fixing Obamacare is near the top of Democrats’ health care priorities, but other proposals may have to be cut.
The Biden administration’s last-ditch bid to restore abortion rights in Texas, explained.
For decades, dramatized plot lines about unwanted and unexpected pregnancies helped create our real-world abortion discourse.
The big unanswered question at the heart of Democrats’ health care agenda.
A startup called Field Trip is opening clinics to administer ketamine treatments. Others may follow.
A week of uncertainty didn’t end up changing much for SB 8.
Why this winter should be better than the last one.
The justices say they are nonpartisan. Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center puts that to the test.
Inside the upside-down world where Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous and ivermectin is saving lives.
Abortion, guns, regulation — conservatives are poised for a big year.
Why some people might need a booster shot right now — and some might not.
Why some people might need Covid-19 booster shots — and some might not.
Democrats can’t do much on health care if they don’t cut prescription drug costs.
A new law bans nearly all abortions in the state. Here’s what that looks like.
Labels like “nonessential” are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.
Why we still can’t sleep, and what to do about it.
A Court that used to prize careful deliberation now seems to care more about making big change quickly.
Pandemic failures have sometimes led to deadly care rationing.
They probably are, but that doesn’t mean that a right-wing judiciary will uphold them.
The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of Theranos, isn’t a reckoning for the tech industry.
How most of Europe caught up to — and then surpassed — the US in their Covid-19 vaccine drives.
Democrats plan to improve Medicare benefits as part of their reconciliation bill. But there’s a lot of work to do.
The Women’s Health Protection Act, explained.
The Court dealt a big blow to Roe v. Wade — and the rule of law.
The loss of abortion rights may not even be the most troubling aspect of the Supreme Court’s inaction over the law.
Texas’s so-called heartbeat law bans nearly all abortions.
US testing numbers have been consistently bad because there is no real strategy.