If federal lawmakers’ attacks on Medicaid succeed, states could be forced to fill the resulting budget holes with cuts to public education, leading to lower salaries for teachers or higher tuition for college students.
Tobacco prevention public policies are proven to help reduce smoking rates, but they may also help increase life expectancy, particularly for lower-income populations.
The average marketplace enrollee will pay about $1,000 more for health insurance than they should due to mandate repeal and the short-term plan rule.
Abortion is considered to be a separate, politicized entity within the broader health insurance system, but a lack of coverage for this critical health care can have devastating impacts on women.
For more than two decades, Medicare has relied far too heavily on recommendations submitted by the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee.
Millions of Americans are seeing the cost of their medications go up, but drug companies are getting two bites out of our pocketbook.
American Indian and Alaska Native women face high rates of maternal and infant mortality.
If a Texas lawsuit against the ACA reaches the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement could rule on the future of health care for millions of Americans.
The newest ACA repeal plan would gut protections and raise prices for health care coverage for women and girls.
New estimates show that recent efforts to eliminate pre-existing condition protections could leave millions of women and girls at risk of being charged more or denied coverage for individual insurance.
The new plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act would have the same devastating results as earlier bills.
As the United States continues to address the opioid epidemic, the needs of people who live with chronic pain cannot fall by the wayside.
Abortion restrictions and threats to access to comprehensive reproductive health care could be contributing toward the maternal mortality crisis in the United States.
The pattern is clear: Health insurers are raising premiums in 2019, and the efforts of the Trump administration and its allies to sabotage the ACA are to blame.
States are working to bring down drug prices by improving price transparency, increasing negotiating power, and cracking down on price gouging.