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Health Care

Vox's coverage of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare-for-all, emergency room fees, and everything else you need to know about the health care industry.

Another Covid-19 winter is coming. Here’s how to prepare.

By Dylan Scott September 22

What happened to the family doctor?

By Dylan Scott September 14

The dangers of virus hunting

By Kelsey Piper September 13

Is there anything Ozempic can’t do?

By Dylan Scott September 13

How America became a nation of gamblers

By Dylan Scott September 7

Medicare’s first-ever drug price negotiations, briefly explained

By Dylan Scott August 30

What the GOP debate revealed about Republican health care hypocrisy

By Dylan Scott August 25

The case for optimism about the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser August 20

You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid

By Allie Volpe August 10

In Texas, a temporary win for abortion rights

By Ellen Ioanes August 5

Therapy is health care. So why won’t your health insurance pay for it?

By Dylan Scott August 4

Is it time to be worried about Covid-19 again?

By Dylan Scott July 28

The next big question about over-the-counter birth control

By Dylan Scott July 13

A new era for Alzheimer’s treatment begins

By Dylan Scott July 7

We finally have malaria vaccines. The next hurdle: Distributing them.

By Rachel DuRose July 6

9 questions about abortion in America, answered

By Rachel M. Cohen, Keren Landman, and 1 more June 24

How to bring back the small-town family doctor

By Dylan Scott June 23

Abortion was a motivating force in Virginia’s primaries

By Nicole Narea June 21

People are using abortion medication later in their pregnancies. Here’s what that means.

By Anna North June 18

Big Pharma’s legal fight to stop cheaper Medicare drugs, explained

By Dylan Scott June 16

Blue states’ “shield laws” for abortion and trans health care, explained

By Grace Panetta and Orion Rummler, The 19th June 13

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first major opinion saves Medicaid

By Ian Millhiser June 8

A 10-year-old Ohio rape victim got an abortion. Now her doctor is being punished.

By Nicole Narea May 26

The next frontier for Ozempic: Health insurance

By Dylan Scott May 26

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing Medicaid every month

By Dylan Scott May 19

What happened to the GOP’s promises to support women and families after Roe?

By Dylan Scott May 17

The Republican plan to sneakily cut Medicaid, explained

By Dylan Scott May 12

3 things you should know about the end of the Covid public health emergency

By Dylan Scott May 10

The mysterious middlemen being blamed for America’s sky-high drug prices

By Dylan Scott May 10

Mental illness is not responsible for America’s guns crisis

By Nicole Narea May 8

The surgeon general says loneliness is as deadly as smoking

By Dylan Scott May 3

In Nebraska, abortion rights are safe — for now

By Ellen Ioanes April 29

The blithe cruelty of the GOP push for Medicaid work requirements

By Dylan Matthews April 29

North Dakota adopts one of the strictest abortion bans in the US

By Nicole Narea April 25

White House warns 21 million Americans at risk of losing Medicaid under GOP proposal

By Dylan Scott April 25

The Supreme Court’s new abortion pill decision, explained

By Ian Millhiser April 21

Medicaid is popular. So why are Republicans still trying to cut it?

By Dylan Scott April 19

Biden’s long-awaited plan to give health care to Dreamers, explained

By Nicole Narea April 14

Republicans want to force doctors to mislead patients about reversing abortions

By Dylan Scott April 13

How Democrats plan to fight abortion pill restrictions

By Nicole Narea April 10

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