On the Hook for Uninsured Residents, Counties Now Wonder How They’ll Pay
In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California’s Placer County provided limited health care to...
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To Knock Down Health-System Hurdles Between You and HIV Prevention, Try These 6 Things
When Matthew Hurley was looking to take PrEP to prevent HIV, the doctor hadn’t heard of the medicine, and when...
It’s the ‘Gold Standard’ in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?
ALEXANDER, N.C. — Aubreigh Osborne has a new best friend. Dressed in blue with a big ribbon in her blond...
Medical Bills Can Be Vexing and Perplexing. Here’s This Year’s Best Advice for Patients.
A Texas boy’s second dose of the MMRV vaccine cost over $1,400. A Pennsylvania woman’s long-acting birth control cost more...
An Arm and a Leg: A Few More Good Things From 2025
An Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from...
State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes
I’ve been checking on the progress of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season, which is happening as Congress continues...
Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back...
Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar
Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths...
Las armas promovidas para la seguridad personal provocan una crisis de salud pública en comunidades negras
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, de 35 años, conoce por experiencia personal la devastación que puede causar un arma. Hace casi...
States Advance Medical Debt Protections as Federal Support Turns to Opposition
Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course...
