Medicaid

14 Million Could Lose Out Under GOP Health Care Plan

By Sam Frizell

Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Medicaid Funding

By Charlotte Alter

Watch John Oliver Tackle Elections on Last Week Tonight

By Melissa Locker

Texas Eliminates Funding to Planned Parenthood

By Alexandra Sifferlin
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How Obamacare Has Impacted The Uninsured Rate

An annual survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded the sharpest drop in uninsured adults in 2014 since the survey began in 1997. The uninsured rate among adults under 65 dropped...

By Claire Groden / Fortune

The Number of Uninsured Americans Continues to Drop

36 million people were uninsured last year

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 31

1. Is the sharing economy opening the door for big business to abuse contract workers?By Jon Evans in TechCrunch2. With fins off many menus, scientists see a glimmer of hope for sharks.By Ted Williams in...

By The Aspen Institute

Rate of Americans Without Health Insurance Hits New Low

States that expanded Medicaid and launched state-run insruance exchanges rack up double-digit declines

By Dan Kedmey

This Is What Keeps Rich People Up at Night

This is what keeps high earners up at night

By Martha C. White

Medicaid Expansion Likely Off the Table in 5 States

Boosters still have hope in states that didn't have elections this year

By Maya Rhodan

Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 2

1. A global competition could prime the pump for development of disease-fighting treatments.By James Surowiecki in New Yorker2. Cancer detecting yogurt? New technology could make diagnosing colon cancer as simple as taking a pregnancy test.By...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 26

1. Al-Shabaab is stronger a year after their horrific attack on a mall in Kenya, thriving on widespread resentment of Kenyan anti-Muslim policies which must be reformed.By the International Crisis Group2. The unnecessary separation of...

By The Aspen Institute

Lawmakers Push Increased Access to Emergency Contraception

Bill comes ahead of a midterm elections in which women are expected to be a key voting bloc

By Charlotte Alter

Getting Poor to Get Help: How a Tragic Accident Trapped My Family in Poverty

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law was horribly injured, she and her family had to spend down their money and assets to get the medical care they needed

By Andrea Louise Campbell

The Most Shocking Mistakes Hospitals Don't Want You to Know About

They include foreign objects left in the body, air embolisms and giving patients the wrong blood type

By David Goldhill

Americans Are Totally Unprepared for This Shock

Never mind saving for retirement: Americans today face the bleak prospect of poverty in their golden years because they have no idea how much nursing homes cost and they wildly underestimate how much they’ll need.In...

By Martha C. White

Morning Must Reads: June 10

In the news: Five American troops killed in southern Afghanistan; Ukraine’s new President Petro Poroshenko talks to TIME about his Russian neighbors; A scathing Veteran Affairs Department report; Hillary Clinton's ABC interview; The Virginia Medicaid fight

By Alex Rogers

Sebelius: Obamacare Rollout Was ‘Terribly Flawed’

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks frankly just days after her resignation about the botched introduction of the Affordable Care Act, saying original estimates of its timetable were "flat-out wrong"

By Charlotte Alter

Ryan's Balanced Budget Plan Comes at a Steep Cost

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has released his fiscal year 2015 budget that would cut $5.1 trillion in spending by repealing Obamacare, eliminating USAID and set aside less funding to fight climate change, among other big reductions

By Jay Newton-Small

Ryan Attacks Poverty War

Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is taking aim at government programs he says haven't done enough to lower the United States' poverty rate

By Alex Rogers
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