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Are 5 million nondisabled Medicaid recipients watching TV all day? That’s unsupported

July 24, 2025 at 1:37 p.m.

Republicans defended the GOP megabill’s Medicaid changes as targeting a group of people they believe shouldn’t qualify: people who can work but instead choose to stay home and chill.

The price you pay for an Obamacare Plan could surge next year

June 18, 2025 at 6:46 a.m.

Josefina Muralles works a part-time overnight shift as a receptionist at a Miami Beach condominium so that during the day she can care for her three kids, her aging mother,...

Studies show that when young people take on care for adults with medical conditions, their health and academic outcomes decline.

Millions of kids are caregivers for elders. Why their numbers might grow.

June 2, 2025 at 1:17 p.m.

High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom survived a terrible car crash. But her body developed tremors, and she lost mobility....

At Social Security, these are the days of the living dead

May 7, 2025 at 6:58 a.m.

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, is accompanied by Susan Levy, Native Health Communications and Community Relations director, during a tour of the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center, in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

RFK Jr. exaggerates share of autistic population with severe limitations

April 30, 2025 at 6:32 a.m.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists about for years.

Slashed federal funding cancels vaccine clinics amid measles surge

April 10, 2025 at 6:08 a.m.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in covid-related funds for state and local health departments in late March.

Dozens of people rallied at the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to protest the Trump administration's mass firings of federal employees. (Jess Mador/WABE)

Current, former CDC staff warn against slashing support to local public health departments

March 24, 2025 at 1:04 p.m.

On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside of a labor union headquarters building.

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