It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.

How Covid vaccine skeptics came to embrace an apocryphal reading of a 1996 law.

Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them.

Is the field of dentistry rife with overtreatment?

Proposals to lower drug prices through importation are wildly popular but also completely inadequate.

The big-box retailer has found a way to monetize the nation’s desperation.

The program is providing life-saving coverage to nearly a quarter of all Americans, but it’s not sustainable.

For opponents of the Affordable Care Act, this latest slapdash effort to gut the landmark law may be the last hurrah.

Millions of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it work.

The FDA should be our toughest regulatory body, but the pharmaceutical lobby has torn it to shreds.

People don’t trust an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from the pandemic.

The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.

Between all the headline-rattling periods of military violence, Israel’s policies toward Gaza keep its residents in a continual state of suffering.

Wherever they hold power, Republicans work in lockstep to deny their constituents life-saving health care.

Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.

Done the right way, lowering the program’s eligibility age could reap huge benefits for ordinary Americans, and offer Democrats an electoral advantage.

The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?

What the debate about the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, birth control, and blood clots was really about