Legacy Topic: Health Care

Today is the final day for comment for the Trump administration’s public charge proposal that would make it harder for immigrants to qualify for citizenship if they’ve used public benefits, including SNAP, public housing and Medicaid. Immigrants who’ve received cash assistance or long-term medical care already have a strike against them when they apply for […]

In Florida, changing climate and a lack of good diagnostic tools make it easier for insect-borne diseases like Eastern Equine Encephalitis to spread.

PTSD treatment so far has focused mostly on veterans, but that's changing.

After World War II, tobacco companies found blacks slightly preferred menthol more than whites; decades of marketing followed.

Regulatory changes would face a process that could take years and face litigation.

But that's a big "if."

Since its inception, the Affordable Care Act has faced fierce Republican efforts to dismantle it. But on Tuesday three of the country’s most conservative states voted to adopt a key provision of the ACA. In Utah, Nebraska and Idaho, voters approved ballot measures to expand Medicaid health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of lower-income […]

"You're going to continue to see the health care industry evolve," Bernard Tyson says.

Two parts of the same city could have very different life expectancy rates.