Margot Sanger-Katz

In an administration with a deregulatory bent, Alex Azar relishes his policymaking powers.

Removing two rules from the individual market could very easily disrupt many others.

Despite some good ideas, addiction researchers say, the legislative effort falls short of the coordinated response the epidemic demands.

Anthem may save money simply by announcing its policy, even if it is never enforced.

Not so many elections ago, Obamacare was a cudgel for Republicans to use against their opponents.

It’s a sign of the issue’s importance that several candidates in close races are feeling pressure to respond.

This is particularly true of the president.

New data on women’s uncertainty over motherhood may reshape how doctors and policymakers think about family planning.

Handgun caliber has been getting bigger over recent decades, even as murder rates have fallen. New research suggests that if the guns had stayed the same, homicides would have declined even more.

Policy experimentation embraced by the administration may disappear along with the rest of the Affordable Care Act.

Many presidents have failed to pass major health care legislation. She shared a detailed list that doesn’t require congressional approval.

The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court that the case did not represent an “emergency” that would require a speedy ruling.

President Trump is trying to revive a 2016 campaign promise to control the rising price of medicines, but new executive orders are coming when he needs drugmakers to deliver coronavirus treatments.

A proposal announced by President Trump last month was to send older Americans $200 discount cards to offset prescription costs. It’s not going to happen before the election, and maybe not ever.

The Democrats’ big social spending bill would bring the country closer to universal coverage.

The Supreme Court is considering overturning Roe v. Wade. Here’s how that could play out numerically.

The Supreme Court decision on Friday was immediately met with celebration and anger. Crowds gathered in cities like Washington, New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles as many states enacted abortion bans and clinics stopped offering the procedure.

Even in some states where abortion remains legal, wait times for appointments are long because of increased demand.

The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term.

It’s now the most used abortion method.