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.

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

People don’t trust an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from the pandemic.

Done the right way, lowering the program’s eligibility age could reap huge benefits for ordinary Americans, and offer Democrats an electoral advantage.

A consideration of dirty work, the people who dream of doing it, and what it means for everyone else

Everything is pretty terrible right now. A glut of pop psych advice wants you to think you can muscle your way out of it alone.

Our corporate care providers may be failing America during this crisis, but that hasn’t stopped them from raking in the profits.

Immigrant workers who got emergency care are struggling, months later, with more symptoms and no doctor.

Thom Tillis’s staffer was cruel but correct in his conversation with a cancer survivor.

Biden says we don’t need radical ideas like Medicare for All to fix our broken system. But his more modest reforms may already be dead on arrival.

The New York Times has either made a grave category error or they’ve given up on the idea of solving America’s health insurance problem.

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the frail and unequal nature of our public health system. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Free, universal health care would not have stopped the coronavirus, but it would have protected the poor and vulnerable.

If you want to know how bad things will get in this pandemic, just consider how bad things have been.

There’s public support for the policy, but many voters have questions about how to get it through a Congress that ruins most of what it touches.

Warren's plan to pay for Medicare for All has sparked a conversation over how much we spend on health care, instead of how well we spend it.

Journalists can occasionally help the victims of the health care industry's predations, but without major reform these abuses will continue.

The political establishment rediscovers the benefit of Red-baiting and xenophobia to preserve the health care industry's buckrakers.

Democrats continue to entrench their support for a health care system in which class warfare is a pre-existing condition.

The most vulnerable Americans are being dunned into destitution through surprise fees and fraudulent practices.