Irish 4 Reproductive Health, a student activist group, filed suit against the Trump administration and Notre Dame over the school's refusal to offer birth control coverage to students and faculty.
New evidence suggests Oregon's Medicaid expansion boosted short-term political participation in the years immediately after the law was passed.
Polling is mixed on whether voters place much importance on the economy's performance.
News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.
Voters consistently rank health care as one of the most important issues in this election.
In a new analysis, researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation looked at the cumulative effects of the Republican Party's actions on health insurance premiums.
Several groups representing inmates at Angola claim the prison's poor living conditions violate the Eighth Amendment.
Proposed changes by the Trump administration that discourage immigrants from using public services come just ahead of flu season, according to epidemiologists.
Over 8,000 beneficiaries lost coverage in the last two months.
A new study asks if insurance policies discourage the overprescribing of opioids and encourage proven alternative pain treatments.
Pacific Standard spoke with Blanca Cuevas, the director of a reproductive health non-profit based on the island.
Too bad U.S. policy doesn't reflect that.
In 2018, 8.7 million people bought their non-group health insurance through healthcare.gov—down from 9.2 million people in 2017.
Over 83 percent of employed Ohioans who were continuously enrolled in Medicaid said the program helped enable them to hold down jobs.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing an alarming Ebola outbreak, with 10 health-care workers now reported to be infected by the highly contagious virus.
A conversation with Rebecca Cokley and Rebecca Vallas.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation report illustrates the toll of out-of-network charges.
Inside the growing activist energy among current and recent med students.
It's middle-income people who aren't eligible for subsidies.
Short-term insurance plans, which are not subject to the Affordable Care Act's regulations, are often cheaper for healthy consumers.
Normally trade groups lobby for less government oversight, but not in this case.
Researchers find that implementing state-level individual mandates across the U.S. would drop the number of uninsured by nearly four million people by 2022.
Advocacy groups worry that the language removals might foreshadow new policies from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The update was totally unrelated to the report, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesman says.