Health Care Archives

A woman receives a flu shot in Chicago, Illinois.

Social Justice

With Flu Season Nearly Here, Medical Experts Warn That Trump’s Immigration Policy Is a Public-Health Threat

Proposed changes by the Trump administration that discourage immigrants from using public services come just ahead of flu season, according to epidemiologists.

Massoud Hayoun

A doctor reads a blood pressure gauge during an examination on April 11th, 2006, in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Economics

Here’s What Happened When Arkansas Implemented Work Requirements for Medicaid Recipients

Over 8,000 beneficiaries lost coverage in the last two months.

Dwyer Gunn

Social Justice

Are Insurers Doing Their Part to End America’s Opioid Epidemic?

A new study asks if insurance policies discourage the overprescribing of opioids and encourage proven alternative pain treatments.

Francie Diep

Isamar holds her nine-month-old baby at their makeshift home in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, on December 23rd, 2017.

Social Justice

One Year After Hurricane Maria, Women’s Health Providers in Puerto Rico Report a ‘Slow’ Recovery Process

Pacific Standard spoke with Blanca Cuevas, the director of a reproductive health non-profit based on the island.

Caitlin Cruz

Students at Nettelhorst Elementary School dig into a salad bar in the school's lunchroom on March 20th, 2006, in Chicago, Illinois.

Economics

The Case for Investing in Children Has Never Been Stronger

Too bad U.S. policy doesn't reflect that.

Dwyer Gunn

Economics

A New Government Report Finds the Trump Administration Could Do a Better Job Running Healthcare.gov

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

Dwyer Gunn

Pierre Brunie, a family doctor, examines a patient at his office, on January 29, 2013 in Eglisneuve-d'Entraigue.

Economics

A New Report Shows That Ohio’s 2013 Medicaid Expansion Helped Nearly 300,000 People Get Work

Over 83 percent of employed Ohioans who were continuously enrolled in Medicaid said the program helped enable them to hold down jobs.

Dwyer Gunn

An Ebola patient is lifted up by two medical workers after being admitted into a Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) on August 15th, 2018, in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

News in Brief

An Ebola Crisis Intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Health-Care Workers Are Infected

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.

Jack Herrera