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In January, Biden opened this enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act. Plus: Those with a health plan can change their coverage.

The U.S. government clarified that health insurers must cover PrEP and the associated doctor visits and tests. Here’s why.

Public health experts say the former president’s anti–health care, anti-immigration policies are largely to blame.

In the wake economic crisis caused by COVID-19, Medicaid now covers nearly 1 in 4 Americans.

The Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Care Act for a third time. Here’s a look at responses from health care advocates.

Breast cancer survivor Marianne Sarcich’s reconstruction surgery was denied by insurance. And denied again. But she persisted and won.

A letter from 124 patient groups urges the White House to make drugs more affordable—and spells out how it can do so.

Cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s would be the initial focus for the proposed agency within the National Institutes of Health.

Health equity advocate Karen Winkfield, MD, MPH, works to enroll more underserved people with cancer in lifesaving clinical trials.

Biden extends the health insurance enrollment period, while his COVID-19 stimulus plan makes massive changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Democrats propose expanding federal subsidies to help people buy private health insurance plans as well as Medicaid in 12 remaining states.

Kenya has been using similar technology for three years. DC’s efforts are among the first in the United States.

Experts analyze oral arguments in the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Exclusion from parents’ insurance may lead to life-threatening lapses in chemo and radiation, study shows.

The report found U.S. cancer patients spent $5.6 billion in out-of-pocket costs for cancer treatment in 2018.

Long-term COVID-19 raises several policy issues. For people affected, none is more urgent than the threat of losing their health insurance.