Health care

Connecticut’s Medicaid expenses are on pace for a $220 million budget shortfall.

Connecticut’s Medicaid expenses are on pace for a $220 million budget shortfall. A policy extending coverage to undocumented children 15 and under is one of the reasons. The Office of Policy and Management, or OPM, doesn’t have any estimate for how much extra the policy is costing, but Democrats are standing by it. “We can be either proactive and humane…

President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House is poised to have big impacts on consumer health care.

Choosing health insurance during open enrollment may seem complicated, but it’s easy once you break it down into steps.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted claims about vaccines that contradict the overwhelming consensus of scientists.

Subsidies to buy insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces are set to expire at the end of 2025. If they’re not extended, coverage could become unaffordable for many.

Whichever party wins control of the House and Senate must decide how to handle a slew of consequential policy matters.

Starting Friday, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients can get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Americans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025.

Lindsay Pfeffer was in the backyard with her children when her son was bitten by a rattlesnake and needed antivenom medicine. Then the bills came.

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

Walmart will start delivering medications in six states, but it plans to offer prescription delivery in nearly every state by the end of January.

As open enrollment kicks off, employees should weigh what their employer is offering in the way of benefits and what it will cost.

For many patients, these medications have been life changing, or even lifesaving. Getting their hands on them, however, can be another experience entirely.

From life-saving cancer treatments to common antibiotics, over 300 medications are currently in short supply.

Dentists say unlicensed practitioners offering cheap dental veneers are putting patients at risk.

Reproductive health services need to be accessible on public college campuses, according to Public Act 23-41, a new law that passed in July 2023. State lawmakers tasked universities to develop plans to make sure students can access prenatal care, contraception, abortion and gender-affirming care accessible. College students can visit their school’s health center for care and then get connected with…

The U.S. ranks as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of health care, according a report by The Commonwealth Fund on Thursday.

People in the U.S. die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths, despite spending much more on health care.

In North Carolina, a state hard hit by the national crisis of medical debt, Terry Belk has spent 20 years struggling to get free of “this … anvil I’m dragging around.”