While President Trump has assured states that thousands of ventilators remain at the ready, thousands more are in storage, unmaintained or otherwise unusable.

In the large budget bill now in Congress, supporters of the measure see a rare opportunity to advance a popular policy.

Even experts need to make personal decisions about what risks are worth it in the age of coronavirus. For some, life will never be the same again.

Abortion access would decline in large regions of the country, a new data analysis shows.

This case series describes COVID-19 symptoms persisting a mean of 60 days after onset among Italian patients previously discharged from COVID-19 hospitalization.

If you have a medical emergency, you will no longer need to worry about a large bill from a doctor you did not choose.

There are more options for getting coverage than in past economic crises.

This is particularly true of the president.

The plan declines to make choices on cuts, and with large categories exempted by leadership, that may make implementing the bill even harder than passing it.

Expansion measures that passed in several states on Tuesday could increase turnout in 2020, research suggests.

Enrollment in Medicaid also reached a record high of 81 million Americans early this year. The spikes reflect the growing demand for health insurance during the pandemic, as well as its greater...

Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can’t easily use.

The Trump administration flouted federal law with a rule that would allow any health care...

Those who are gathering with family or friends are taking precautions or rethinking their holiday rituals altogether. Most are staying home.

Evidence from states that also reopened enrollment suggests it could pull more young, healthy Americans into insurance coverage.

Two doctor-staffing companies are pushing back against legislation that could hit their bottom lines.

How the best- and worst-case scenarios compare with other common killers.

It’s open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act. Anyone who needs insurance for next year can pick a plan now.

This is particularly true of the president.

Since coronavirus struck, more people have died than usual in every state of the country, with 23 states seeing deaths above normal peaking in the last two months, according to a New York Times...

More than 140 people in Austin, Ind. — population 4,200 — and its environs have tested positive for H.I.V., but fear and misinformation are hampering efforts to contain the outbreak.

The patterns from hundreds of thousands of survey respondents reflect partisanship, peer pressure and the footprint of the coronavirus itself.

In the large budget bill now in Congress, supporters of the measure see a rare opportunity to advance a popular policy.

The pandemic brought a record uptick in deaths, interrupted a downward trend in death rates and spurred the highest death rate above normal ever recorded in the country.

Deaths from all causes have surged, undermining arguments that coronavirus numbers have been overblown.

There is more financial assistance for more people seeking coverage. And many people who are already covered can get discounts, too, if they sign up.

Instead of growing and growing, as it always had, spending per Medicare beneficiary has nearly leveled off over more than a decade.

The $200 cards for prescription drugs, intended for 33 million older Americans, are part of a $6.6 billion promise offered to a key constituency.

The C.D.C. said Thursday that vaccinated Americans no longer needed masks in most places. Other disease experts recently had a different message: that masks were necessary in public.

“Do you pay the hospital bill or do you pay the utility bill?” Don’t count on your health insurance for serious illnesses, a new survey warns.

A proposal announced by President Trump last month was to send older Americans $200 discount cards to offset prescription costs. It’s not going to happen before the election, and maybe not ever.

President Trump is trying to revive a 2016 campaign promise to control the rising price of medicines, but new executive orders are coming when he needs drugmakers to deliver coronavirus treatments.

Government mandates are lifting, but these experts say the pandemic won’t really end nationally until more people, including children, are vaccinated.

In the large budget bill now in Congress, supporters of the measure see a rare opportunity to advance a popular policy.

His tweets Monday morning misrepresent his record on health care.

The opioid epidemic has contributed to reductions in American life expectancy over the last three years, a pattern not seen since World War II, new data show.

In seven hard-hit states, total deaths are nearly 50 percent higher than normal, according to new C.D.C. statistics, suggesting that the virus has killed far more people than the number in official...