Medicaid

As President Joe Biden takes office, his administration will get to work reversing some of the Trump administration’s most controversial and destructive policies, including the elimination of key environmental protections, the creation of new immigra

When schools closed last spring, children with severe mental illnesses were cut off from the services they'd come to rely on. Many have since spiraled into emergency rooms and even police custody.

The country’s very low minimum wage comes at a high cost. And for taxpayers, it adds up to more than $100 billion a year. That number comes from a new analysis of safety-net usage by Ken Jacobs, Ian Eve Perry, and Jenifer MacGillvary of UC Berkeley’s

Millions of Americans could lose their insurance—and neither Joe Biden nor the states will be in a good position to do much about it.

There would be enormous consequences were the court to throw out the ACA, which has survived twice in the high court. But the court's makeup is very different now than on those past occasions.

The Trump administration has been marked by a scaled-back federal investment and involvement in U.S. health care. Biden's team has plans to change that — even if Republicans retain Senate control.

When Donald Trump took the oath of office on a gray January morning in 2017, he laid out his vision for the United States under his leadership. “We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from

From Medicare to Obamacare to controlling drug costs, the candidates mostly differ in their approach to health care. Here's a quick guide to their views and proposals.

In a Florida speech about senior citizens, President Donald Trump made misleading comparisons of Medicare costs under his administration and his predecessor's.  The post Trump’s Misleading Medicare Boast appeared first on FactCheck.org.

In a chaotic debate with plenty of crosstalk, there was also plenty to fact-check. The post FactChecking the First Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on FactCheck.org.

The coronavirus pandemic didn’t create the health disparities among Americans, but it has exposed once again how stark the problem is. Black and Latino patients are two to three times as likely as white patients to be diagnosed with COVID-19, and mor

Laura French, an elder care attorney in Georgia, sees it all the time. A family is in denial about a parent or another older relative’s deteriorating physical or mental health until there’s a crisis, and “all of a sudden everyone realizes ‘we can’t d

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed President Trump's effort in court to nullify the Affordable Care Act would "take 100 million people with preexisting conditions and move them in a direction where they can't get coverage." They wouldn

KAYLA BRIM LAUGHED WHEN SHE learned it could take 10 days to get her COVID-19 test results back. “I thought, O.K., well, within 10 days I should be fine,” she remembers. That was on July 2. More than a month later, Brim is still far from fine. Before

KAYLA BRIM LAUGHED WHEN SHE learned it could take 10 days to get her COVID-19 test results back. “I thought, O.K., well, within 10 days I should be fine,” she remembers. That was on July 2. More than a month later, Brim is still far from fine. Before

Health advocates and progressive Democrats have revived calls for the US to consider expanding Medicare to millions of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, while the White House threatens the federal health programme and Democrats draft their v

Nearly 700,000 Texans have lost health insurance during the pandemic, and the state already had more uninsured people than any other. Many Texans with COVID-19 symptoms hesitate to seek treatment.

In remarks in the White House Rose Garden on July 14, President Donald Trump falsely described many of the immigration recommendations drafted by allies of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vanquished rival Sen. Bernie San

Credit is due once again to the Trump administration for its steadfastness in the face of real-world crises that could derail its long-term project of relentlessly doing exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. Case in point: The administra

If you’re someone who pays attention to the U.S. economy and thinks about the effect those numbers could have on your financial future, you’ve probably been feeling rather optimistic lately. The stock market has bounced back from its recent downturn.

Choosing a place to spend your retirement years has never been easy, but these days, it’s particularly challenging. The coronavirus pandemic has caused some retirees to rethink plans to move to urban or suburban walkable communities. But rural commun

Not long after the president’s Tulsa rally fizzled, red-state voters chose to expand Medicaid.

IN JANUARY 2017, ROSALIE DOWNING WAS ADMITTED TO MOUNTAIN View Health & Rehabilitation, a low-slung nursing home with four wings in El Paso’s Golden Hill neighborhood. Rosalie had kidney disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. She used a wheelcha

A narrow majority approved the ballot measure, making Oklahoma the 37th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. An estimated 200,000 uninsured adults will now qualify for coverage.

An analysis of claims data shows stark racial disparities among Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with COVID-19.

As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic took hold this spring, more than 38 million Americans lost their jobs, and an estimated 27 million workers and their families found themselves without health insurance, too. Nearly half of Americans got thei

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Jenny Morones and Courtney Marrs are both working mothers. Both labor to raise three children on low incomes. Both fled abusive relationships. But because Morones lives in California - a state that expanded its safety net throug

At least 27 million Americans who lost their jobs in recent weeks also lost their health insurance, a new report finds. Others lacked a health plan even before COVID-19 hit. Here's how to find help.

There was a moment a couple of years ago when I realized it was time for an intervention. While on a particularly stressful reporting trip, I picked at my cuticle so intensely that my thumb got infected. I signed up for an app called Joyable, which i