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 promising new Alzheimer’s treatment must escape the shadow of its controversial predecessor.
America’s unbreakable fixation with football will only lead to more injuries like Damar Hamlin’s.
The growing, and sometimes conflicted, calls for cash payments to achieve parity and better health outcomes, explained.
Constant health crises have made it impossible for some hospitals to plan for the future. Patients will pay the price.
“For us, by us” public health responses quashed mpox, improved Covid-19 vaccine equity, and more.
The US doesn’t have enough infectious disease doctors — and the situation is about to get worse.
US life expectancy got worse during Covid-19, and then kept getting worse.
From racial bias in CPR to private equity price hikes, here’s what researchers learned about US health care this year.
A rule governing federal courts in Texas turned a former lawyer for the religious right into one of the most powerful people in the United States.
Lasting change is going to take more than just good hand hygiene.
Ron DeSantis’s increasingly aggressive anti-Covid vaccine crusade, explained.
In retrospect, it was inevitable that this particular judge would come for contraception.
Millions of lives are at stake as the country prepares to relax its Covid strategy.
And health care systems are getting absolutely crushed ... again.
America’s frequent drug shortages put patients’ health — and their lives — at risk.
Should they be taken over by a bigger system or close entirely?
This is what the future of mental health could look like.
All they do is win, win, win, no matter what. So why are America’s most powerful lawyers so unhappy?
The trend reveals the importance of data sharing between state, federal, and tribal health authorities.
Steps to take to protect your family from Covid-19, RSV, and flu.
The major reflections, arguments, and spin.
There are still plenty of uncalled elections, but here are some lessons the midterms delivered.
When losses stack up, how are you supposed to manage?
Here’s how to prepare for it.
Pro-choice coalitions prevailed in red, blue, and purple states.
A leading Democratic data analyst explains what happened in 2022 — and why abortion proved to be the decisive issue.
So you voted because of abortion? Here’s what it got you.
Abortion was on the ballot and Americans voted for it.
Yet another Medicaid expansion ballot measure passed in a Republican state.
The anti-Medicaid arguments in Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski appeared to be too much even for this Court.
Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski is the single greatest threat to America’s social safety net since Paul Ryan.
The Supreme Court’s abortion decision could help some Democrats in tight midterm contests. But will it be enough?
The vaccines, along with other preventative treatments, could change cold season as we know it.
Democrats’ best chance at flipping a state legislature lies in Michigan.
More American child pedestrians die on Halloween from cars than on any other day of the year.
What’s behind the early surge in RSV and flu — and what’s to come.
All of society benefits when workplaces include people with a range of disabilities.
Abortion rights might not be enough to convince them.
Here’s how to fix them — and what’s getting in the way.
Is going straight to voters the way to fix America’s medical debt crisis?