Department of Health and Human Services

In 2018, 8.7 million people bought their non-group health insurance through healthcare.gov—down from 9.2 million people in 2017.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Lawsuits agains the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services reveal a pattern of immigrant shelters prescribing powerful psychotropic drugs without receiving informed consent.

• By Caroline Chen & Jess Ramirez

A progress reports shows that hundreds of migrant parents whose children remain in United States shelters may have been deported.

• By Francie Diep

Immigration officials provided a litany of reasons as to why the remaining 46 children were ineligible for reunification.

• By Rebecca Worby

The Tuesday deadline was imposed last month by a federal judge.

• By Rebecca Worby

A federal judge ordered HHS last week to begin reuniting families by July 10th.

• By Rebecca Worby

Former Department of Homeland Security official Peter Boogaard weighs in on immigration policy under Trump.

• By Ashley Hackett

Acceding to a request from the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has voided a federal appeals court's ruling upholding the right of teens in immigration custody to seek abortions.

• By Ashley Hackett

Amid the outrage over missing migrant children, some of the facts have gotten murky.

• By Ashley Hackett

As questions of children left unaccounted for by immigration authorities mount, rights advocates say the Trump administration's separation of parents and children remains the real issue.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The Trump administration is preparing to warehouse immigrant children on military bases after they have been separated from their parents while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

• By Ashley Hackett

Important questions pertaining to LGBT-specific health care are no longer visible on the website.

• By Candace Butera

Beginning in 2019, the CDC will phase out the program to include only 10 countries.

• By Candace Butera

Reports published this week showed that Brenda Fitzgerald invested in tobacco companies' stock while heading the CDC.

• By Candace Butera

It was Price's hypocrisy—not his malfeasance—that did him in.

• By Jared Keller

President Trump said Wednesday he was not pleased with Price's use of taxpayer money.

• By Emily Moon

A review found 35 cases since 2012 in which nursing home or assisted living workers surreptitiously shared photos or videos of residents on social media. At least 16 cases involved Snapchat.

• By Charles Ornstein

Breaches that expose the health details of just a patient or two are proliferating nationwide. Regulators focus on larger privacy violations and rarely take action on small ones, despite the harm.

• By Charles Ornstein

New York's “character-and-competence” reviews are supposed to weed out operators with histories of violations and fines—but regulators don’t always act on the full story.

• By Allegra Abramo & Jennifer Lehman

Yet another health insurer recently reported a massive data breach, affecting the financial and medical information of 11 million people. We asked the head of the federal agency tasked with investigating these issues whether the notion of patient privacy was outmoded.

• By Charles Ornstein

Federal health watchdogs say they are cracking down on organizations that don’t protect the privacy and security of patient records, but data suggests otherwise.

• By Charles Ornstein

The government launched a task force against fraud, but abuse of the system is just too easy.

• By Lauren Kirchner

When a child is deemed suitable for an adult organ transplant, why are they put at the end of the donation line?

• By Michael Fitzgerald