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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Is Using the Opioid Crisis to Build His Wall
The epidemic is an integral part of the president’s anti-immigration rhetoric, but it otherwise hasn’t become an urgent part of his policy agenda.
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Bryan Woolston / AP The Fight Over Medicaid Begins in Kentucky
A federal court’s decision to vacate newly-implemented restrictions on the state program challenges the GOP strategy across the country.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Images The Federal Government Abandons the Most Popular Part of the ACA
The Justice Department won’t defend Obamacare’s preexisting-conditions provision in court—the latest in the administration’s assault on the law.
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Steve Helber / AP What Virginia's Vote Means for the Future of Medicaid Expansion
With state legislators deciding this week to extend the program to 400,000 citizens, the drawn-out battle over Obamacare’s signature provision draws nearer to an end.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Big Pharma Gets a Big Win From Trump
The president campaigned on stinging criticisms of the pharmaceutical industry and promises to use Medicare to lower drug prices. But none of that materialized in his drug-pricing speech this week.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Democratic Push for a 'Public Option on Steroids'
Proposals in the Senate envision a considerably more aggressive role for government in the delivery of health care.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The True Cost of Cheap Health Insurance
What the Trump administration’s forthcoming rule expanding access to “junk” plans will mean for consumers
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The People Trump's War on Drugs Will Actually Punish
His campaign, backed by the Justice Department, only reinforces a law-enforcement paradigm that puts people of color in prison.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Should Pro-Life Clinics Have to Post Information About Abortion?
The Supreme Court will consider the rights of crisis pregnancy centers, which help women “imagine what the choice of life would be like.”
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Jerome Delay / AP Fixing the World's Oldest Health Problem
A new intervention from researchers, philanthropists, and government officials in Mali uses universal health care and basic public-health strategies to address child mortality.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Medicaid Expansion's Troubled Future
The Affordable Care Act’s extension of public insurance to poor adults might finally make its way into every state. But those inroads could come with a cost.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Real Lessons From Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform
The 1996 creation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program effectively killed cash assistance. Now, Republicans want to use it as a model for the rest of the social safety net.
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David Tulis / AP Is the CDC Losing Control?
The country’s flagship public-health agency is facing internal scandal and funding issues that will test its ability to respond to outbreaks on the horizon.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters 'He’s Chosen This Movement as His Own'
At the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., pro-life activists said the president has a lot to be proud of.
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David Goldman / AP The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality
Even with the Affordable Care Act, the premium and payment structure of insurance increases the relative income gap between rich and poor.
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Courtesy of March for Life Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
Advocates are tracking new developments in neonatal research and technology—and transforming one of America's most contentious debates.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Trump Backs Health-Care Workers Who Object to Providing Abortions
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new office devoted to conscience objections and religious freedom on Thursday—an answer to long-standing objections from the right.
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Evan Vucci / AP Instead of Work Requirements, Why Not a Jobs Guarantee?
Paying people to work would be a more direct—and less expensive—way to lift them out of poverty.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Psychiatrist Telling Congress Trump Could Be Involuntarily Committed
A Yale professor says she’s telling lawmakers that the president may actually be “dangerous.”
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Closing of the Republican Mind
The tax debate offers a clear measure of how deeply insular the GOP has become. It’s now governing solely of, by, and for Red America.
