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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.

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

The ongoing, unnecessary Adderall shortage, explained

By Dylan Scott April 10

Can we solve the EpiPen cost crisis?

By Dylan Scott April 4

What is Narcan? The opioid overdose spray, explained.

By Dylan Scott March 31

The lawsuit that threatens everything from cancer screenings to birth control, explained

By Ian Millhiser March 30

Never pay a medical bill without asking these questions first

By Allie Volpe March 30

What would it mean to treat guns the way we treat cars?

By Muizz Akhtar March 27

Thanks, Obama! The hilarious reason why a judge just blocked Wyoming’s abortion ban.

By Ian Millhiser March 23

How the US can stop the spread of Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

By Nicole Narea March 23

Wyoming banned the abortion pill. Some states are trying to go even further.

By Ellen Ioanes March 19

Why 70 percent of the world’s maternal deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa

By Rachel DuRose March 17

Medicare is being privatized right before our eyes

By Dylan Scott March 17

The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained

By Dylan Scott March 13

No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas

By Ian Millhiser March 12

Biden’s budget goes all in on protecting Medicare. Just how much danger is it in?

By Dylan Scott March 9

The campaign to make insulin less expensive just scored a major victory

By Dylan Scott March 1

The pay gap between hospital CEOs and nurses is expanding even faster than we thought

By Dylan Scott February 24

Yes, the Ohio train wreck is an environmental disaster. No, it’s not Chernobyl.

By Benji Jones February 18

The radical proposal to let Medicare and Social Security lapse, explained

By Dylan Scott February 17

Why you know the names of tons of medicines you’ll never need

By Emily Stewart February 9

Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own.

By Dylan Scott February 7

Can you get bird flu?

By Keren Landman and Benji Jones February 6