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.


The do’s and don’ts of asking an AI for health advice.


Kennedy’s support is fracturing. The childhood vaccine schedule could break it.


The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.


How MAHA gets American history wrong.


Zeke Emanuel on RFK Jr. and the crisis of faith in public health.


The party should only force a shutdown for its own political gain.


Vaccine guidance has never been more confusing. Here’s how to navigate it.

Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.


Trump brought us the Covid vaccine. Now he’s trying to take it away.


The CDC is collapsing. Will America’s health follow suit?


US vaccine consensus has officially shattered.


Jessica Knurick explains how to counter MAHA when no one trusts experts.


Extreme heat is increasing the prevalence of a disease that hits low-income people the hardest.

Banning food dye is inconsequential when environmental pollution is killing us.


The health care consequences of Trump’s budget bill are already here.


How a common birth control method became the center of a reckoning.


Are summer camps and family vacations going to be hot beds for measles?


The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.


Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.


The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.


Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.


The problem with pancreata.


How to navigate a world where MAHA is setting vaccine policy.

The autism commission is doomed to fail.


An unlikely alliance is supporting a new bipartisan bill in Congress.


Uh oh, the quest for a safer cigarette may have backfired.


When it comes to our health, maybe we should be testing and diagnosing less.


Why people who work could still lose their health insurance.


Activists believe they’ve found a new weapon.


A movement fueled by conspiracy theories is starting conspiracy theories about its latest nominee.


Two cast members of the hit Netflix reality TV show on what the HHS secretary misunderstands about autism.


Fewer people are dying from opioid overdoses. Trump threatens that progress.


The potential and limits of “baby bonuses.”


The two Republican justices appeared open to an attack on Obamacare, but ultimately seemed likely to reject it.


The Obamacare wars are back.


US health care is never going to be the same.


The case should have a clear outcome, but a Republican Court overcomplicates everything that involves abortion.


Kerr v. Planned Parenthood asks the justices to render much of federal law unenforceable, in order to spite abortion providers.


Surgery before or after the weekend? Here’s what science says.

