With the turn of the New Year, millions of Americans who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act have seen their premiums skyrocket. Last August, the Congressional Budget Office ...

Move over, Soccer Moms. Forget Joe the Plumber. Never mind those Bernie Bros. The 2026 midterm elections will be decided by America’s sick — the people who spend their annual health insurance ...

South Jersey's Virtua Health and Delaware-based ChristianaCare are moving forward to terminate previous plans of cofounding a new regional nonprofit health system. "After thoughtful evaluation, both ...

Alaska will get $272 million from the federal government in 2026 to upgrade its rural health system, officials announced on Dec. 29. The money comes from the Rural Health Transformation Program, a new ...

From left to right: U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy answer questions in Anchorage on Dec. 29, 2025, during a press conference on the Rural Health ...

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The NYS Nurses Association threatens to go on strike against private city hospitals unless their salary demands are met. Matthew McDermott New York City faces the threat of a strike next month by the ...

As usual at a Universal Health Care Commission (UHCC) meeting, supporters of a universal, taxpayer-financed system of health care in Washington state showed up to give public comment. And as usual, ...

Two moments in 2025 revealed how vulnerable the U.S. health care system has become. The first was quiet but consequential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised parts of its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former signaled that national scientific guidance can now tilt toward ideology. The latter showed how fragile and costly it ...

Tokyo, Japan IT WAS ALMOST TWO WEEKS AGO that Republican senators voted to block renewal of the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at year’s end. But I wasn’t in Washington on that ...