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.
A public health care option looks stalled in Congress. But it’s very much alive in Nevada.
Society has undervalued care workers for centuries. Biden has a chance to fix it.
The Court’s new median justice really doesn’t care about precedent.
4 million poor Americans are counting on Democrats to fix the Medicaid expansion gap.
The case is the biggest threat to abortion rights to arise since Amy Coney Barrett joined the Court.
The Court has been surprisingly hesitant to weigh in on abortion. But a pending case is likely to force its hand.
The Biden agenda has run into the hardest roadblock in health care: How do you pay for it?
Doctors are ready for a bigger role in the vaccination campaign.
The CDC suspects anxiety is behind some negative effects experienced by needle-averse people.
A program called Covax wants to distribute vaccines fairly. Is it working?
The CDC says we can now drop our masks outdoors in some cases. Experts explain where we still need to keep them on.
The United Kingdom is not a pandemic success story. But its massive Covid-19 trials program is.
A partisan split is emerging in America’s vaccination rates, but a lack of accessibility might be an even bigger obstacle to herd immunity.
The high costs of long-term care impacts everyone. Democrats and Republican voters want Biden to do something about it.
Covid-19 vaccines are supposed to be free. Some people are getting bills anyway.
Access barriers have created a Hispanic vaccination gap.
J&J says it will still meet US delivery targets for the single-shot Covid-19 vaccine.
But US voters still want drug pricing reforms, a new Data for Progress survey finds.
The legal arguments in Kelley v. Becerra aren’t exactly good arguments, but five justices have signaled that they agree with them.
Biden’s next health care challenge will be enrolling uninsured people who already qualify for benefits.
It may still be a while. Here’s what parents can do in the meantime while their kids aren’t vaccinated and others are.
Obamacare’s 2021 challenge: How close to universal coverage can we get?
The Court’s brief order in Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center suggests it will take an incremental approach to dismantling abortion rights.
The Supreme Court is poised to give itself a veto power over much of the Biden administration’s authority.
A new study finds people who got Medicaid as children were less likely to die young, and more likely to be employed.
Toddlers and teenagers might have pretty different summers.
Ohio wants red states to be able to get something for nothing from the federal government.
Pandemic survivor guilt may be pervasive, but it’s hard to detect, leaving many struggling in silence.
Patients are usually terrible at getting their second shot. Not with the Covid-19 vaccine.
3 college students on why spring break is more than just a time to party.
We’re health disparities experts in Baltimore. Here’s how we’re helping more Latinos get their shots.
In telling Oprah about her struggles with mental health, Meghan shed light on the stigma of asking for help.
Staff turnover at nursing homes is appalling. Raising the minimum wage could help.
We spoke to a psychologist about how to deal with post-Covid-19 worries.
The US set a new daily record for vaccinations on Saturday with 2.9 million shots.
The Covid-19 stimulus bill isn’t going to fix the Medicaid expansion gap.
The FDA could make an emergency use authorization as soon as this weekend, paving the way for distribution.
With more than 500,000 dead and no clear end in sight, some have found tools for coping with loss and stress are no longer working.
“I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy”: Doctors describe what their sickest coronavirus patients endure.
A new study describes the human toll of private equity firms buying up nursing homes.