New York is closer to making the city and its hospitals more accountable for soaring health care costs. A new proposed local law would create a committee to monitor the city’s employee-related health care expenses and disclose prices for hospital procedures.

As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care.

Democrats say extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits is urgent. Republicans say there's plenty of time to figure it out. As the government shutdown goes on, there are a lot of mixed messages on Capitol Hill about the health care issue at the center ...

Technology is redefining health care and it’s not only cutting-edge surgical treatments and advances in important routine screenings like mammograms. Increasingly, health care is happening outside of the doctor’s office through virtual care ...

Recently, Mayor Eric Adams Adams pledged overarching and decimating cuts to essential services as part of his November budget modification and already promised more drastic cuts in January for next year's budget. This draconian approach of blanket cuts and ...

With a few hours’ reflection, it’s become clear that Barack Obama’s reference to the U.S. Postal Service at yesterday’s health care town hall was the most revealing, and damaging, thing the president has said in the entire health care debate.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom enters the second half of his final term, healthcare stands out as his most ambitious but glaringly incomplete initiative for California residents. The issue will probably define his national profile for better or worse, and the ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration has shut down a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs created under President Joe ...

When Marshelle Grimes-Billings started work as a smock room attendant at a poultry processing plant in Decatur, Alabama, in 2021, health care was a luxury she couldn’t afford. At the time, Grimes-Billings weighed 330 pounds, and she carried with her a ...

A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by 2034, part of the state’s effort to expand the primary care workforce and give more people access to preventive ...