A divided Senate wades back into the abortion wars
Wed Jan 14 10:00 am
The Senate HELP Committee is expected to meet this morning to debate federal regulation of abortion pills — the predominant method of ending pregnancies nationwide and a key way patients are circumventing state bans.
Congress to reject Trump global health cuts
Tue Jan 13 10:00 am
Trump put foreign-aid cuts at the top of his agenda when he took office.
RFK Jr.’s fountain-of-youth moonshot
Mon Jan 12 10:00 am
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is backing research into the lymphatic system and psychedelic drugs to reverse aging.
The GOP Obamacare defectors
Fri Jan 09 10:01 am
Seventeen GOP lawmakers rebuffed opposition from House leadership Thursday and voted to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies for three years.
House tees up Obamacare subsidy vote
Thu Jan 08 10:00 am
The House is expected to pass a bill today extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies that expired at the end of 2025, which sent Affordable Care Act premiums skyrocketing.
Thune’s 3 key ingredients for a health care deal
Wed Jan 07 10:00 am
Congress is back to trying to solve its health care problem.
The Obamacare fight is back in the spotlight
Tue Jan 06 10:00 am
House Democrats could move as soon as tomorrow to force a vote on extending the expired Obamacare subsidies for three years.
What our health reporters are watching in 2026
Mon Jan 05 10:00 am
The past year has shifted the health care landscape in dozens of ways.
Sickle cell cures, Medicaid barriers
Wed Dec 24 10:00 am
The federal government wants to make it easier for Medicaid patients to access new, curative treatments — one of the few initiatives on which President Donald Trump and the public health establishment are aligned.
Can the US vaccinate like Denmark?
Tue Dec 23 10:00 am
President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. like the way that wealthy European countries vaccinate their children against fewer diseases compared with U.S. kids.
Dems’ unity hits a Medicare-for-All wall
Mon Dec 22 10:00 am
Some more moderate Democrats worry that progressives’ renewed push for Medicare for All would undermine the party’s recent united front in fighting for an extension of the Obamacare subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.
GOP, HHS move to end gender-affirming care for kids
Fri Dec 19 10:00 am
Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are reframing health care as a culture-war issue that they’ve relied on before: restricting transgender care for children.
