The Republican Party’s “repeal and replace Obamacare” zombie is back, and it’s even more brain-dead than before.

“People should not be forced to go into debt to get lifesaving prescriptions,” said Governor Gavin Newsom.

Once the Covid-19 emergency order is lifted, new restrictions proposed by the White House will make it harder for many to access the medications on which they depend.

Don’t let Eli Lilly’s latest P.R. stunt fool you: Private companies shouldn’t be allowed to set prices for these lifesaving drugs in the first place.

The California governor’s shock veto of a bill that would have created safe injection sites is a shameful play for major donors who would fuel a future presidential run, at the expense of his most vulnerable constituents.

I spoke with Senator Debbie Stabenow, the architect of the law’s mental health care provisions, to understand how it happened—and what it can teach us about policy reform.

The massive government interventions that buffered Covid-19’s ravages are fading away, returning us to an unacceptable status quo.

Tens of millions of people could get booted off their health care in a matter of months—but it’s an avoidable disaster.

Thousands of urgent care clinics have popped up over the last decade. How safe are they?

One of the key lessons of the pandemic has been that this industry is utterly useless during a public health crisis.

Big Pharma and cowardly leaders in the Global North have left poor countries vulnerable to the most contagious Covid variant yet.

Readers have long bickered over what actually ails Dickens’s famous Christmas tyke, but there’s no argument about how we can help children like him.

In the face of unprecedented opioid overdose deaths, the people most at risk can’t reliably access care—including life-saving treatments like methadone and buprenorphine.

By not getting these useful tools into everybody’s hands, we’re allowing the pandemic to flourish.

Lawmakers are touting a proposed cap on prices, but the benefit won’t swing to the patients with the most desperate needs.

New medicines are on the way in the fight against the pandemic, but these life-saving drugs might get trapped in a maze of bad policy.

The celebrity mogul wants to kill our dysfunctional health care system with kindness, but it will take a lot more than that.

The Silicon Valley model of disruption won’t fix health care—it only creates the opportunity for a select few to profit off what’s broken.

It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.

Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them.