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Medicare Plans Keep Disappearing
Reimagining the Future of Health Research After Sweeping Cuts
Hidden Help: What Happened When Oregon Forced Hospitals to Boost Financial Aid?
Hidden Help: A New Push for Hospitals to Prevent Medical Debt
With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt
States Weigh In on Medicaid Fraud
911 Fails People in Mental Health Crises. Here's a Plan to Fix It.
As SNAP Shrinks, What's the Future of Food Aid in America?
Beyond Finger Pointing: The Fight to Lower Health Care Costs
The Cost of Cutting NIH Research: Voices from the Frontlines
Trump's Pick to Quiet HHS Chaos Heads to the Senate
‘I Feel Unsafe Almost Everywhere’: How Trump Has Changed Life for One Transgender Teen
Should I Trust AI to Diagnose Me?
Meet the Man Launching Trump's Medicaid Work Requirements Months Early
A Wyoming Doctor’s Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Her Deep Red State
Call to Mind: Immigration and the Challenge to Belong
As Drama at Trump's FDA Subsides, Doubts and Damage Linger
Making Medical Decisions with Uncertain Science
With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt
Medicaid Overhaul Complicates States’ Plans to Bring Care Into Jails and Prisons
Where Did the No Surprises Act Go Wrong? And Can It Be Fixed?
Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative
A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
Republicans Want to Change How You Buy Health Care
The U.S. Saved $1 Trillion on Health Care. Why Doesn't It Feel Like It?
Call to Mind: The Fifth Branch
Doctors Hated the No Surprises Act. Now Some Are Getting Rich Off of It.
New York Braces for Trump's Big Medicaid Shakeup
Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
Inside the Urgent Care Boom
‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care
Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care
As States and CDC Split on Vaccines, What's Next?
A Better Way to Care for Older Adults with Opioid Addiction
Mental Illness Left Their Loved Ones on the Streets. California’s Big Fix Hasn’t Helped
One State's Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health: Part 2
One State's Sprint for its Share of $50 Billion for Rural Health: Part 1
Race to the Bottom: Where's the Cavalry?
Breaking Down Trump’s $50 Billion Rural Health Fund
Race to the Bottom: Hard Bargain
Race to the Bottom: Boom Times
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
How Treating Teens’ Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago
One Scientist's Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses
A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder
Should I Trust AI to Diagnose Me?
Will Trump’s Prescription Drug Deals Really Lower Prices?
How New York Times Columnist Paula Span Navigates ‘The New Old Age’
The Future of Health Care Research: 'Federal Funding Really Is Irreplaceable'
How States Are Reckoning with Republican Health Reforms
BONUS: What Happens if Obamacare Subsidies Shrink?
A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?
Obamacare Premiums Are About to Soar. How’d We Get Here?
This Federal Experiment Is Pouring Money into Mental Hospitals. Will It Work?
Getting Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants in Trump's America
Trump Forced Hospitals and Insurers to Reveal Their Prices. What Happened?
How One Company Gamified Health Insurance
The Medicaid Policy Red and Blue States Agree On
One Scientist's Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses
A Rural Hospital in Kentucky Prepares for Medicaid Losses
What It’s Like to Be Transgender in Trump’s America
As the Big Beautiful Bill Becomes Law, States Face a ‘Daunting’ Rollout
How Two Supreme Court Rulings Affect the ACA, Planned Parenthood and the Future of Preventive Care
Unpacking the Health Impacts of Republicans' 'Big Beautiful Bill'
Trump’s Policies Could Undermine the Fight to End America’s HIV Epidemic
RFK Jr. Just Replaced the Experts Guiding U.S. Vaccines. Now What?
How Treating Teens’ Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago
Helping Some of America’s Costliest Patients Could Get A Lot Harder
What Cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare Could Mean for Hospitals, Insurers and You
What Happens When Cops Refuse to Respond to Mental Health Calls?
Presenting: First Opinion: The Invisibility of Good Public Health Work
Fighting Measles and Anti-Vax Views in West Texas
What Republican Health Cuts Could Mean for People with Disabilities
Medicaid Work Requirements Are Back. What You Need To Know
Obamacare Heads to the Supreme Court … Again
How RFK Jr. is Upending Public Health
Making Sense of Sweeping Changes at HHS
This Budget Cut Would Save Medicare Patients Money. But Can Rural Hospitals Afford It?
Medicare and Medicaid Under Dr. Oz: What to Expect
The Cost of Cutting NIH Research: Voices from the Frontlines
One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities
Lots of Hospitals Are Using AI. Few Are Testing For Bias
Getting Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants in Trump's America
As Trump Targets USAID, What’s at Stake for U.S. and Global Health?
RFK Jr. Wants to Change What Americans Eat. He's Not The First
The Powerful Vaccine Committee RFK Jr. Could Soon Control
RFK Jr. Is Headed to Capitol Hill. A Former HHS Secretary Lays Out the Stakes
Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make it Better
Biden’s Medicaid Director Reflects on Lessons Learned and Worries for the Future
The Fifth Branch: The Last Line of Care
The Fifth Branch: Keeping People Safe