Social Programs
Vox’s home for examining the state of social security, Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, food stamps, and more.
Disparities in health care are now more about income inequality than racial inequality.
What happens when they find out?
Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) likes Medicaid block grants. But the politics, he says, are getting messy.
Here’s another promise Trump might break.
Trump’s HHS pick would reduce the program’s budget by $1 trillion over the next decade.
“It would be a fundamental change in how Medicare works.”
“Make our day.”
Funds intended for needy families are going to “crisis pregnancy centers,” which lie to women to try to talk them out of abortion.
When people know they have a safety net, they are more willing to free up other areas of the economy.
Honoring Harden’s legacy includes recognizing the limits of welfare reform that doesn’t reform what makes welfare necessary.
She still hasn’t totally owned up to its failure.
He says he won’t let “billions of taxpayer dollars finance a steady diet of Mars bars and Mountain Dew.”
Bill Clinton’s signature domestic policy achievement, its effects, and its legacy, explained.
A US senator explains why it’s essential to update the Medicare guarantee.
Once he wanted to cut it. Now he wants to expand it.
What you need to know.
Expand it. A lot.
New results have some wondering if drug tests are the best way to use the state’s resources.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has embraced a policy that liberals love.
If we really did extend Medicare to cover all Americans, a lot of people would likely find themselves quite disappointed with the benefits.
The main way: taxing the rich a LOT.
Giving poor people cash is a pretty great idea.
The federal agency that oversees the nation’s largest trove of health data won’t let researchers study the problem.
It’s very real, and it redistributes wealth upward.
Companies that produce generic drugs must pay back the government if the price of their drugs grows faster than inflation.
Twice as much, in fact.
Don’t look down on me — look down on the employers who don’t pay a living wage.
“Hop on the welfare wagon,” says the Last Son of Krypton.
The other left-of-Hillary candidate lays out his agenda.
The third rail of American politics was a non-factor in 2008 and 2012. That’s set to change.
For years, he’s argued that it was the Christian thing to do.
I didn’t know how broken America’s safety net was until my sister-in-law became paralyzed.
The Obama administration is reviving a controversial policy to pay doctors for end-of-life talks.
The New Jersey governor is a foreign policy hawk, a tax-cutter, and has straddled the line on social issues.
He does want to increase the retirement age, though.
The attackers were looking for employment records for the federal government.
How to pay for it? “Scrap the cap.”
If the tactic works, the White House may have found a model to use again and again to overcome one of the most significant remaining hurdles to Obamacare’s goal of universal health-care coverage.