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POLITICO Pulse Check delivers the latest news in health care with sharp policy analysis and a dose of real-world perspective. Hear what stories POLITICO's deep bench of Health Care policy reporters are watching and their analysis of the critical issues facing regulators, legislators, and practitioners.

Episode Date
The two big ways AI is changing health care
Dec 22, 2023
For HHS, AI is an inside job
Dec 21, 2023
A look back at abortion policy in 2023 and a look forward to 2024
Dec 20, 2023
Fentanyl’s fatal year in review
Dec 19, 2023
What the USPS is hiding about worker safety
Dec 18, 2023
What Biden's new fair price drug policy means
Dec 15, 2023
Congress’ health reform package: Where does it stand?
Dec 14, 2023
The future of milestone opioid law
Dec 13, 2023
How the coming mining boom could upend local health care
Dec 12, 2023
Why Congress is deadlocked over PEPFAR
Dec 11, 2023
Some drug patents in the Biden administration's crosshairs
Dec 08, 2023
Who’s calling the shots on health care policy now?
Dec 07, 2023
Dr. Google’s legislative test
Dec 06, 2023
Repeal-and-replace redux
Dec 05, 2023
Sickle cell gene-editing treatment poised for FDA approval
Dec 04, 2023
Trump reignites Affordable Care Act battle
Dec 01, 2023
The changing face of primary care
Nov 30, 2023
China’s virus outbreak: Seasonal return or new threat?
Nov 29, 2023
Medicare Advantage plans on the rise, and under scrutiny
Nov 28, 2023
Organ transplant reforms stalled by lack of funding
Nov 27, 2023
Why the forecast is cloudy for year-end health legislation
Nov 22, 2023
A clear and present danger
Nov 21, 2023
More infant RSV shots sent as winter nears
Nov 20, 2023
U.K. approves world’s first gene-editing therapy
Nov 17, 2023
Health policy fixes in flux without year-end omnibus spending bill
Nov 16, 2023
Connecticut’s solution to covering pricey weight-loss drugs
Nov 15, 2023
Will Florida be the exception for abortion-rights supporters?
Nov 14, 2023
GOP seeks 95 percent cut to Trumps AIDS program
Nov 13, 2023
Voters have their say on abortion restrictions
Nov 10, 2023
2023 Milken Future of Health summit takeaways
Nov 09, 2023
Finding a doula in New York just got easier
Nov 08, 2023
CDC panel recommends changing infection-control guidelines
Nov 07, 2023
Notable change in NY's approach to overdose prevention funding
Nov 06, 2023
Transparency concerns at drug pricing patient sessions
Nov 03, 2023
The ACA's open enrollment began this week: Here's what's new
Nov 02, 2023
Coming to terms with AI’s future role in health care
Nov 01, 2023
The future is here: AI in health care
Oct 31, 2023
Abortion on the ballot: What the Ohio vote means
Oct 30, 2023
Congress debates Biden’s nursing home staffing rules
Oct 27, 2023
Bernie Sanders' failed fight to lower drug prices in 2023
Oct 26, 2023
How CDC Director Mandy Cohen is kicking off a new era
Oct 25, 2023
Why some states want more power over Medicare Advantage plans.
Oct 24, 2023
Congress not acting on the opioid epidemic
Oct 23, 2023
Why experts are criticizing FDA's approach to some neurological drugs
Oct 20, 2023
Why and how CMS is 'reining in' Medicare Advantage ads
Oct 19, 2023
How Bidens’ insurer transparency rules hinder shopping around
Oct 18, 2023
House speaker chaos, or not …
Oct 17, 2023
Biden’s NIH pick finally gets her confirmation hearing
Oct 16, 2023
What's behind Rep. McCaul's anti-fentanyl push?
Oct 13, 2023
Impact of Ohio’s vote on abortion rights
Oct 12, 2023
Sorting fact from fiction about Europe’s view of gender-affirming care
Oct 11, 2023
Hospitals targeted in Congress’ search for cost savings
Oct 10, 2023
The tuberculosis spike in NYC
Oct 06, 2023
Inside the Kaiser Permanente strike
Oct 05, 2023
Medicare kicks off its drug price negotiations with patient input
Oct 04, 2023
What you need to know about the stopgap spending bill
Oct 03, 2023
Why a government program meant to save Medicare money actually spent a lot more
Oct 02, 2023
Cancer care at a crossroads
Sep 29, 2023
Why hasn’t the Biden administration acted on a Trump-era health rule?
Sep 28, 2023
The American Medical Association’s growing rift with Republicans
Sep 27, 2023
Unpaid hospitals bills pile up as Medicaid drops coverage
Sep 26, 2023
The seismic shift in primary care
Sep 25, 2023
Trump’s abortion flip-flop roils GOP primary
Sep 22, 2023
Key lawmaker, experts debate health care system payment fairness
Sep 21, 2023
Dr. YouTube
Sep 20, 2023
Rebuilding trust is hard. Just ask Mandy Cohen.
Sep 19, 2023
Biden goes after insurers on mental health parity
Sep 18, 2023
George W. Bush’s personal push to save his PEPFAR legacy
Sep 15, 2023
Three Obamacare co-ops survived. Here’s how it happened.
Sep 14, 2023
Impact of life-threatening heat
Sep 13, 2023
Drug costs, price transparency in focus of new house health care bill
Sep 12, 2023
As Medicaid cuts loom, states brace for junk plan schemes
Sep 11, 2023
Confronting the reality of personal medical debt
Sep 08, 2023
PBM reform at a tipping point as Congress confronts drug pricing
Sep 07, 2023
Abortion disputes threaten renewal of HIV/AIDS program
Sep 06, 2023
Congress is back, and so is the threat of a government shutdown
Sep 05, 2023
Politico scoop: The White House to name drugs for Medicare negotiations next week
Aug 25, 2023
A high-deductible insurance debate in Congress: Who will benefit?
Aug 24, 2023
Regulating drug marketing on social media: Can it be done?
Aug 23, 2023
Malaria cases baffle experts
Aug 22, 2023
A new tool in the tool box?
Aug 21, 2023
Facing the next pandemic
Aug 18, 2023
NYC school health clinics shutting down as care model evolves
Aug 17, 2023
HHS seeks to toss drug pricing suit on IRA anniversary
Aug 16, 2023
After Ohio vote, Dems eye Virginia
Aug 15, 2023
Bipartisan support grows for psychedelic medicine, but hurdles remain
Aug 14, 2023
The undoing of the biggest health care expansion since Obamacare
Aug 11, 2023
Pregnancy accommodation rules spark abortion backlash
Aug 10, 2023
Behind the drop in the reporting of medical device shortages
Aug 09, 2023
Old congressional friends now at odds over Covid
Aug 08, 2023
As Medicaid funds dry up, private insurer ups its political contributions
Aug 07, 2023
Experts warn of potential fall covid surge as hospitalizations increase
Aug 04, 2023
America’s maternity care deserts spread
Aug 03, 2023
Congress faces a time crunch to pass critical health bills
Aug 02, 2023
Medicaid unwinding may hobble the nation's opioid response
Aug 01, 2023
Pending nursing home rules upset both advocates and industry
Jul 31, 2023
CDC finds more tuberculous cases linked to bone grafts
Jul 28, 2023
Mississippi’s cannabis conundrum: Too much weed, not enough need
Jul 27, 2023
Biden cracking down on insurers who skimp on mental health care coverage
Jul 26, 2023
GOP readies for spending fight for wins on abortion, trans care
Jul 25, 2023
What’s next for rare disease treatments?
Jul 24, 2023
Behind the evolving overdose crisis
Jul 21, 2023
Newt's new view of NIH
Jul 20, 2023
Biden’s plan to expand HIPAA to protect abortion rights comes under bipartisan fire
Jul 19, 2023
CMS’ physician fee cut plan draws praise and criticism
Jul 18, 2023
How one red state boosted its public health budget
Jul 17, 2023
FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control. What’s next?
Jul 14, 2023
Sen. Sanders' line in the sand
Jul 13, 2023
A White House plan to tackle ‘Tranq Dope’
Jul 12, 2023
Major health care legislation looms
Jul 11, 2023
Biden proposes four-month cap on short-term health coverage
Jul 10, 2023
How the AMA chief plans to tackle pay and talk to Congress
Jul 07, 2023
CMS under fire from GOP for ignoring doctors’ advice on value-based care
Jul 06, 2023
The Medicare drug price negotiation plan is out
Jul 05, 2023
What’s next for the CDC post Walensky?
Jun 30, 2023
The future of Alzheimer’s treatment drugs
Jun 29, 2023
Abortion disputes in Congress stalls AIDS relief program
Jun 28, 2023
FDA’s first draft guidance for psychedelic research released
Jun 27, 2023
Medicare payment reform flounders on Capitol Hill
Jun 26, 2023
What the abortion landscape looks like now, one year after Roe
Jun 23, 2023
Will Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements get the job done?
Jun 22, 2023
A surprising new strategy to fight abortion bans: religious freedom
Jun 21, 2023
Meet Mandy Cohen, Biden's pick to lead the CDC
Jun 20, 2023
Partisan rift threatens pandemic preparedness bill
Jun 15, 2023
Can Walensky’s new vision for the CDC weather congressional gridlock?
Jun 14, 2023
FDA considering a second Alzheimer's drug
Jun 13, 2023
CMS doubles the number of drugs subject to inflation remedies
Jun 12, 2023
The impact of the debt ceiling deal on vaccine funding
Jun 09, 2023
What we learned at the POLITICO health care summit
Jun 08, 2023
A preview of today’s POLITICO Health Care Summit
Jun 07, 2023
Medicare director charts path in drug price negotiations
Jun 06, 2023
An unfounded claim about Ron DeSantis troubles people with autism
Jun 05, 2023
The rally to keep Medicaid coverage amid program unwinding
Jun 02, 2023
Doctors and hospitals ready to take on new, riskier ways to save Medicare
Jun 01, 2023
Low-income workers scored in the Covid economy. But will their progress continue?
May 31, 2023
How a one-time Alabama abortion clinic is adjusting
May 30, 2023
Why some Democrats joined with the GOP to pass new fentanyl legislation in the House
May 26, 2023
U.S. HIV infections decline, but racial disparities persist
May 25, 2023
Mayo Clinic vs. Minnesota in health spending fight
May 24, 2023
Medicare contractors will keep paying for remote health monitoring
May 23, 2023
Debt limit breach could devastate health care
May 22, 2023
Senators investigate extent of Medicare coverage denials
May 19, 2023
Bernie's newest health care plan
May 18, 2023
The one abortion law Democrats aren’t rushing to repeal
May 17, 2023
Regulating AI in health care
May 16, 2023
Republicans object to Medicare cost-cutting experiment
May 15, 2023
Blue states waver on undocumented Medicaid coverage expansions
May 12, 2023
FDA advisors back first OTC birth control pill
May 11, 2023
The end of an era: What to expect when the Covid PHE is over
May 10, 2023
Overdose prevention centers: Effective abroad, but controversial in the U.S.
May 09, 2023
Boom and bust: The pandemic and community health workers
May 08, 2023
The next front in the abortion rights ballot fight: Florida
May 05, 2023
Former NIH Director’s $130 million plan for African genomics centers
May 04, 2023
Drug overdose deaths among Black Americans skyrocket
May 03, 2023
Tracking health care legislation on the Hill right now
May 02, 2023
Senate bill has telehealth advocates feeling hopeful
May 01, 2023
Senate HELP committee to mark up drug pricing bills next week
Apr 27, 2023
It’s hard for doctors to switch jobs. Hospitals like it that way.
Apr 26, 2023
The challenge to health care access for trans youth
Apr 25, 2023
The solution to Medicare’s financial problems may start at home
Apr 24, 2023
Congress asks how its health data was compromised
Apr 21, 2023
If you get a Covid-19 shot, it will be a bivalent booster, FDA decides
Apr 20, 2023
How Washington state aims to protect consumers’ health data
Apr 19, 2023
Sen. John Fetterman’s return to Capitol Hill driving a conversation about mental health
Apr 18, 2023
How the FTC and HHS plan to protect your health data
Apr 17, 2023
Future uncertain at generic drug lobby
Apr 14, 2023
Horse sedative an 'emerging threat' to public health
Apr 13, 2023
How the pandemic is (still) changing traditional doctors' roles
Apr 12, 2023
Unpacking dueling rulings on abortion pills
Apr 11, 2023
Teens are worried about TikTok, too
Apr 10, 2023
The impact of Covid on kids’ mental health may be worse yet
Apr 07, 2023
As federal contracts end for Covid-19 vaccines: What comes next?
Apr 06, 2023
Ringing the long Covid alarm
Apr 05, 2023
The FTC mandates Illumina dissolve its relationship with Grail
Apr 04, 2023
Restore Roe or go further? Abortion-rights activists clash over ballot initiatives
Apr 03, 2023
Republicans’ ‘new pro-life agenda’
Mar 31, 2023
FDA approves first OTC opioid overdose reversal drug
Mar 30, 2023
The Biden administration’s ongoing fight over abortion pill access
Mar 29, 2023
The latest on cannabis research from the office trying to study it
Mar 28, 2023
An AI decision maker in your emergency room?
Mar 27, 2023
Lawmakers say TikTok is killing kids
Mar 24, 2023
New report says CDC overstated vax data
Mar 23, 2023
The Sanders v. Moderna hearing
Mar 22, 2023
California and drugmaker partner to make affordable insulin
Mar 21, 2023
What GOP lawmakers are doing to keep abortion off the ballot
Mar 20, 2023
Tester wants to fix VA health records
Mar 17, 2023
New CDC report shows sharp rise in U.S. maternal deaths
Mar 16, 2023
Why the VA’s health arm will cover a new Alzheimer’s drug ... and Medicare won’t
Mar 15, 2023
How SVB's failure affects health tech
Mar 14, 2023
Daylight saving drama
Mar 13, 2023
A drug cost stat falls out of favor
Mar 10, 2023
Inside the President's budget
Mar 09, 2023
Next-gen Covid vaccine hopefuls part ways with K Street
Mar 08, 2023
Here's what drove Walgreens' abortion pill decision
Mar 07, 2023
The roadblock facing an opioid addiction treatment
Mar 06, 2023
Inside the FTC's deal with BetterHelp
Mar 03, 2023
GOP divided on how to respond to ‘lab leak’ reports
Mar 02, 2023
DeSantis and the 'medical freedom' movement
Mar 01, 2023
Why one state’s plan to unwind a Medicaid rule is raising red flags
Feb 28, 2023
Where a good night’s sleep is hard to get
Feb 27, 2023
The surgeon general wants to talk to you about mental health
Feb 24, 2023
PBM reform effort intensifies on Capitol Hill
Feb 23, 2023
CDC heads to Ohio
Feb 22, 2023
The nursing home booster problem
Feb 21, 2023
FDA advisers recommend over-the-counter naloxone
Feb 17, 2023
What's new in psychedelics research
Feb 16, 2023
Making public the private equities associated with nursing homes
Feb 15, 2023
A step toward better data sharing
Feb 14, 2023
Contrarian scientists question Biden’s cancer moonshot
Feb 13, 2023
Could these new legal theories reverse abortion bans?
Feb 10, 2023
Court could ban abortion pills nationwide
Feb 09, 2023
Teen drug deaths lead California schools to stock overdose reversal drug
Feb 08, 2023
Former FDA chief David Kessler reflects on Covid
Feb 07, 2023
More regulation could be coming for cannabis
Feb 06, 2023
FTC cracks down on GoodRx
Feb 03, 2023
Deciding the fate of millions on Medicaid
Feb 02, 2023
The end of the Covid emergency is near, and Pfizer reveals its post-PHE plans
Feb 01, 2023
Lobbyists quake as Sanders takes Senate panel's helm
Jan 31, 2023
The start of the FDA's pivot in immunization strategy
Jan 30, 2023
Inside Amazon's new prescription subscription
Jan 27, 2023
Lawsuit asks whether social media companies are responsible for mental health issue
Jan 26, 2023
In conservative states, anti-abortion groups butt heads with ... Republicans
Jan 25, 2023
What Zients' stint as Covid czar tells us about what kind of chief of staff he'll be
Jan 24, 2023
This is what’s keeping pharmacy shelves bare
Jan 23, 2023
GAO questions HHS oversight of ‘gain-of-function’ research
Jan 20, 2023
Democratic Sen. Warner pushes for health cybersecurity legislation
Jan 19, 2023
The Biden admin's big plans for airplane toilets
Jan 18, 2023
Inside the crisis in the U.K.'s National Health Service
Jan 17, 2023
The end of the covid public health emergency could limit virtual prescribing
Jan 13, 2023
What Maine’s prisons taught Washington about fighting opioids
Jan 12, 2023
Biden navigates the end of the Covid public health emergency
Jan 11, 2023
The fight over how to deliver bad news to patients
Jan 10, 2023
FDA approves second Alzheimer’s treatment
Jan 09, 2023
The state of mental health and substance use in the U.S.
Jan 06, 2023
The latest on XBB.1.5
Jan 05, 2023
Anti-abortion groups give House GOP a list of their demands
Jan 04, 2023
What's next on the AI front in health care
Dec 23, 2022
What we learned from the mpox outbreak
Dec 22, 2022
2023 state abortion battles: What to expect
Dec 21, 2022
Can Mark Cuban disrupt prescription drugs?
Dec 20, 2022
When Bernie Sanders gets the HELP committee gavel
Dec 19, 2022
The FDA's struggles on flavored e-cigs
Dec 16, 2022
Running the NDAA's numbers on global health funding
Dec 15, 2022
New data sheds more light on long Covid
Dec 14, 2022
States face brutal virus fallout
Dec 13, 2022
Competition is coming for a top drug
Dec 12, 2022
Who's the next Fred Upton?
Dec 09, 2022
Developing the RSV vaccine
Dec 08, 2022
Unlocking health data
Dec 07, 2022
Ex-FDA vaccine inspectors call for better training
Dec 06, 2022
Top pharma group seeks postmortem on lobbying after drug pricing loss
Dec 05, 2022
Elon Musk wants to put a chip in your brain
Dec 02, 2022
The states making another run at expanding Medicaid in 2023
Dec 01, 2022
Covid forced rural health care to go virtual. Providers don’t want to go back.
Nov 30, 2022
These 'Abortion Pirates' want equal access to abortion pills worldwide
Nov 29, 2022
The challenges of long Covid and federal disability policies
Nov 28, 2022
Using environmental laws to curb abortions
Nov 23, 2022
Long Covid’s funding shortfall
Nov 22, 2022
The debate over RSV's unprecedented surge and children's health
Nov 21, 2022
Why venture capital for health technology startups is tanking
Nov 18, 2022
Your guide to the next six weeks in Washington on health care
Nov 17, 2022
For Congress, health privacy is top of mind
Nov 16, 2022
The end of the military's Covid-19 vaccination requirement?
Nov 15, 2022
The state Supreme Court races that gave anti-abortion groups a win
Nov 14, 2022
How a potentially divided government would affect health policy
Nov 11, 2022
SCOTUS case could change who gets sued if a Medicaid recipient's rights are violated
Nov 10, 2022
How motivating were abortion rights in the midterms?
Nov 09, 2022
The non-abortion-related health care ballot measures to watch Tuesday
Nov 08, 2022
The races that will shape abortion access in the states
Nov 07, 2022
A new Congressional report linking cybersecurity to health security
Nov 04, 2022
Why opioid treatment providers are very, very worried about fentanyl
Nov 03, 2022
Experts pinpoint problems with the FDA's tobacco program
Nov 02, 2022
RSV surge casts focus on vaccine pipeline
Nov 01, 2022
BIO leadership shakeup followed clashes with board
Oct 31, 2022
What we learned from the MedTech conference
Oct 28, 2022
Congress has a plan for rural hospitals. Most aren't interested.
Oct 27, 2022
Medical debt on the ballot in Arizona
Oct 26, 2022
The epidemics we stopped
Oct 25, 2022
What we can learn about experiments in remote care
Oct 24, 2022
Biden's bivalent booster scramble
Oct 20, 2022
Inside Biden's new pandemic preparedness and biodefense strategy
Oct 19, 2022
How a battle over a pregnancy drug highlights risks in FDA's expediting process
Oct 18, 2022
Congress is primed for action on mental health
Oct 17, 2022
What could help the global monkeypox vaccine situation? A couple of brothers.
Oct 14, 2022
Warning to your health care bills: more inflation is on the way
Oct 13, 2022
Doctors campaign for their candidates?
Oct 12, 2022
Why the U.S. lags in approving a nasal Covid vaccine
Oct 11, 2022
Abortion services continue to dwindle post-Roe
Oct 07, 2022
Should these opioids be schedule 1 drugs?
Oct 06, 2022
How the staggering nursing shortage might end
Oct 05, 2022
Why states aren't applying to Biden's abortion access solution
Oct 04, 2022
The war against superbugs
Oct 03, 2022
Abortion bans complicate prescriptions for other drugs
Sep 29, 2022
The fallout from Biden going off script on the pandemic
Sep 22, 2022
New CDC data shows STD rates shot up in 2021
Sep 15, 2022
Monkeypox vaccine unknowns
Sep 08, 2022
Omicron booster shots could soon be on their way
Sep 01, 2022
FDA reviews first-ever OTC birth control application
Jul 14, 2022
FDA adds more advisors after a spring of stumbles
Jul 07, 2022
The state lawmakers at the center of abortion rights
Jun 30, 2022
Patients could lose telehealth options for addiction treatment
Jun 23, 2022
Global abortion-rights advocates brace for impact from Roe
Jun 16, 2022
What researchers know — and don't — about long Covid
Jun 09, 2022
Vaccine injury compensation programs overwhelmed while Congress stalls
Jun 02, 2022
Getting the risk messaging right on monkeypox
May 26, 2022
Ghana's covid vaccination campaign
May 19, 2022
The push inside the FDA for over-the-counter birth control
May 12, 2022
Bringing clinical trials into the 21st century
May 05, 2022
Menthol cigs face an FDA ban
Apr 28, 2022
Biden admin will rescind Trump ‘conscience’ rule for health workers
Apr 21, 2022
Insulin, a poster child for unaffordable drugs
Apr 14, 2022
Amazon's big moves in the telehealth space
Apr 07, 2022
The puzzling case of hospitals and N95s
Mar 31, 2022
White House warns free Covid treatments at risk
Mar 17, 2022
CDC relaxes guidelines and Biden’s new covid plans
Mar 03, 2022
Inside the FDA's 4-month delay over infant formula
Feb 24, 2022
Finding another $30 billion for Covid aid
Feb 17, 2022
Medicaid staring down end-of-pandemic deadline
Feb 10, 2022
Pfizer asks FDA to authorize Covid shot for kids under 5
Feb 03, 2022
The newest pandemic wedge issue: Sotrovimab
Jan 27, 2022
Why the Biden administration is finally ramping up tests and masks
Jan 20, 2022
'Confusion and frustration': Congress on the CDC
Jan 13, 2022
CDC doubles down on December guidance
Jan 06, 2022
Califf a likely confirmation for FDA
Dec 16, 2021
Democrats' fight over prescription drug prices
Dec 09, 2021
Where Novavax went wrong
Dec 02, 2021
Get ready for more boosters
Nov 18, 2021
What vaccine mandates look like in reality
Nov 11, 2021
School vaccine mandates are being put to the test
Nov 04, 2021
Presenting Global Insider: Taiwan’s digital minister on China’s “digital authoritarianism”
Oct 28, 2021
More booster news and shots for kids: What you need to know
Oct 21, 2021
Who will the vaccine mandate affect?
Oct 14, 2021
A new testing push
Oct 07, 2021
The holidays are coming. Is a Covid surge coming, too?
Sep 30, 2021
Becerra takes back seat on Covid
Sep 23, 2021
DeSantis' transformation on vaccinations
Sep 16, 2021
Could pandemic programs provide a path to ending hunger?
Sep 09, 2021
Immunity: making sense of the data
Sep 02, 2021
New variant, same story
Aug 26, 2021
How America failed at reporting Covid data
Aug 19, 2021
What we know about kids and Covid
Aug 12, 2021
What we know about vaccines and variants right now
Aug 05, 2021
What to know about the new mask guidance
Jul 29, 2021
How Covid upended the workforce
Jul 22, 2021
Japan's Olympic gamble
Jul 15, 2021
In Chicago, Biden's vax plan crashes into reality
Jul 08, 2021
What to know about the Delta variant
Jul 01, 2021
Why we're gonna miss our vaccine goal
Jun 24, 2021
A political and legislative boost for anti-vaxxers
Jun 16, 2021
Can the G7 deliver on vaccines?
Jun 10, 2021
Why Covid rules on liquor, pot and telemedicine might stick around
Jun 03, 2021
The future of transit after Covid
May 27, 2021
How do we boost vaccination rates?
May 20, 2021
Cases are surging in Southeast Asia. Where’s the U.S.?
May 13, 2021
The problem with health data
May 06, 2021
Which wizard is your vaccine?
Apr 29, 2021
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez
Apr 22, 2021
Let's talk about testing
Apr 15, 2021
What we can learn from Emergent's Covid vaccine mishap
Apr 08, 2021
Why cases are rising and what we can do about it
Apr 01, 2021
The AstraZeneCatasrophe continues
Mar 25, 2021
The AstraZeneCatastrophe
Mar 18, 2021
To vaccine passport, or not to vaccine passport?
Mar 11, 2021
The road back to normalcy
Mar 04, 2021
Vaccines: The new global currency?
Feb 25, 2021
Lessons from the front lines of the vaccine effort
Feb 18, 2021
Europe's sloppy vaccine rollout
Feb 11, 2021
Reopening schools: A messy report card
Feb 04, 2021
The problem with health data
Jan 28, 2021
New president. Same pandemic.
Jan 21, 2021
Goodbye, Dan Diamond
Jan 14, 2021
What a Democratic Senate means for Covid
Jan 07, 2021
The vaccines are here!
Dec 17, 2020
Introducing ... The Biden Health Team
Dec 10, 2020
The President, the President-Elect, and the Pandemic
Dec 03, 2020
The angel or the devil?
Nov 19, 2020
Your questions about the Covid vaccine, answered
Nov 12, 2020
Did Covid even matter for the election?
Nov 05, 2020
Presenting... Global Translations: Can we make enough vaccine?
Nov 01, 2020
What you need to know about Trump's and Biden's health policies
Oct 29, 2020
A global pandemic. A scattered response.
Oct 22, 2020
The Most Dramatic Episode of Pulse Check...EVER
Oct 15, 2020
A $300 million ad blitz from HHS
Oct 01, 2020
Sen. Chris Murphy on Covid and the courts: "This is another repeal debate"
Sep 24, 2020
Caputo out.
Sep 17, 2020
A pandemic, a vaccine and an election. What could go wrong?
Sep 10, 2020
Will Covid define the election?
Sep 03, 2020
Leader of the Task Force
Aug 27, 2020
Cut health funding for the military? Biden and Trump agree: Nah
Aug 25, 2020
A new VP candidate with old healthcare baggage
Aug 13, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Waging the COVID War with `Realistic Optimism`
Aug 06, 2020
Groundhog Day, Hydroxychloroquine-Style
Jul 30, 2020
Is telehealth here to stay?
Jul 23, 2020
The health department's $5M soap opera
Jul 16, 2020
Coronavirus: 6 months in, 6 months out
Jul 09, 2020
Bolton, China and Coronavirus
Jun 25, 2020
Operation Vaccine: Warp Speed Ahead?
Jun 18, 2020
U.S. Surgeon General: George Floyd "could have been me"
Jun 11, 2020
Coronavirus is a magnifying glass on racial inequity
Jun 04, 2020
Coronavirus: A grim milestone
May 28, 2020
Coronavirus: Some members of the National Guard face a 'hard stop'
May 21, 2020
Coronavirus: Rick Bright's explosive whistleblower claim
May 14, 2020
Coronavirus: Inside the White House's race for more tests
May 07, 2020
Coronavirus: The rocky road at HHS
Apr 30, 2020
Coronavirus: Why Surgeon General Jerome Adams was sidelined
Apr 23, 2020
Coronavirus: Inside America's two-decade failure to prepare
Apr 16, 2020
Coronavirus: Trump versus his health officials
Apr 09, 2020
Coronavirus: Behind-the-scenes on the pandemic playbook
Apr 02, 2020
Coronavirus: One-on-one with Scott Gottlieb
Mar 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Over by Easter? Not likely.
Mar 26, 2020
Coronavirus: Inside Trump's response
Feb 27, 2020
Exit interview: Rebekah Gee on reshaping Louisiana's health program
Feb 13, 2020
The Wuhan coronavirus: Understanding the threat and government response
Jan 30, 2020
Did Trump just solve the vaping crisis?
Jan 16, 2020
Six things missing in the Medicare-for-All debate
Dec 12, 2019
Inside the fight shaking HHS, with Adam Cancryn and Rachana Pradhan
Dec 05, 2019
Sponsored Content: Telehealth solutions bridging the health care divide for veterans
Nov 20, 2019
Saving the VA, Chapter 4: Sen. Jon Tester on Congress' role
Nov 18, 2019
Saving the VA, Chapter 3: The patient experience, with J.R. Wilson
Nov 15, 2019
Saving the VA, Chapter 2: Leading the agency, with former Secretary David Shulkin
Nov 13, 2019
Saving the VA, Chapter 1: Caring for veterans, with Andrea Plate
Nov 11, 2019
Sponsored Content: Delivering better care for patients – Oncology leaders weigh in
Oct 31, 2019
Ebola, flu — and mudslides?
Oct 31, 2019
The fight to fix organ donation, with Greg Segal
Oct 30, 2019
Meet John Marty — the "Bernie Sanders of Minnesota"
Oct 24, 2019
When immigration and health care collide, with Mark Greenberg and Scott Lloyd
Oct 17, 2019
One-on-one with Adam Boehler
Oct 03, 2019
Is this the next big change to Medicaid?
Sep 19, 2019
What will (and won't) happen this fall. Plus: inside the launch of POLITICO Pro Cannabis
Sep 05, 2019
The long shadow of Trump's "public charge" rule
Aug 22, 2019
Gun violence is more than a "mental health crisis"
Aug 08, 2019
Dissecting a debate moment: Sanders, Warren and... Delaney?
Jul 31, 2019
Neera Tanden on Medicare Extra, the Democratic primary and Trump's legacy
Jul 26, 2019
The race for AI supremacy
Jul 18, 2019
Understanding Trump's kidney plan, plus an ACA update
Jul 11, 2019
Looking outside the Beltway with Bijan Salehizadeh and Sue Desmond-Hellmann
Jul 03, 2019
Sen. Lamar Alexander on how to build a health care bill
Jun 27, 2019
What it's like to run Medicaid, with Tim Hill
Jun 20, 2019
Keeping new moms alive, with Katy Kozhimannil
Jun 13, 2019
How the courts are deciding Obama and Trump's health care legacies, with Katie Keith
Jun 06, 2019
Roundup: CBD and marijuana, plus 2020 policy fights
May 30, 2019
Meet the congresswoman behind Democrats' new health care package
May 23, 2019
On Uwe Reinhardt's new book and lasting legacy
May 16, 2019
Inside Baltimore's 'Healthy Holly' scandal with the reporter who broke it
May 08, 2019
Why 150,000 nurses are fighting for "Medicare for All"
Apr 30, 2019
'Historic' payment pilots and Ariadne Labs' Asaf Bitton
Apr 26, 2019
Roundup: Medicare for All, Democrats' divides and drug pricing investigations
Apr 18, 2019
Tony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor
Apr 11, 2019
Rep. Joe Kennedy on defending Medicaid in the Trump era
Apr 04, 2019
The new GOP senator who wants to be a leader on health care
Mar 28, 2019
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Mar 20, 2019
Can we trust Trump on HIV?
Mar 13, 2019
The Scott Gottlieb era is (almost) over
Mar 07, 2019
Meet the industry group fighting Medicare for All
Feb 28, 2019
Roundup: Medicaid fights, ACA lawsuits and drug pricing with Rodney Whitlock
Feb 22, 2019
How a top Democrat is approaching this year's investigations
Feb 14, 2019
Planned Parenthood's Leana Wen
Feb 07, 2019
Sen. Chuck Grassley
Jan 29, 2019
Ashish Jha on hospital readmissions and global health
Jan 24, 2019
Sarah Kliff on hospital billing and policy journalism
Jan 18, 2019
Inside HHS: A former official defends crisis response
Jan 07, 2019
What's ahead for health care in 2019
Jan 03, 2019
Bonus: Unpacking the government shutdown
Dec 28, 2018
Maryland AG Brian Frosh on his fight to save Obamacare
Dec 20, 2018
Surgeon General Jerome Adams
Dec 18, 2018
HealthCare.Glum? The latest on the ACA
Dec 13, 2018
Rep. Pramila Jayapal and the fight for 'Medicare for All'
Dec 05, 2018
Roundup: The lame-duck Congress, plus new drug pricing plans
Nov 29, 2018
Dan Barber wants you to stop throwing away food
Nov 15, 2018
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Nov 09, 2018
Midterms recap: What happens now
Nov 07, 2018
How to watch health care in the election
Nov 01, 2018
Meet the woman leading the nation's war on addiction
Oct 25, 2018
Peter Orszag and news roundup
Oct 17, 2018
Why one nurse is running for Congress
Oct 10, 2018
Sponsored content: Setting the record straight on Medicaid
Oct 04, 2018
Pulse Check at Work: Health coach
Sep 27, 2018
Pulse Check at Work: Data scientist
Sep 20, 2018
Pulse Check at Work: Radiologist
Sep 13, 2018
Pulse Check at Work: Home health aide
Sep 06, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh, ACA court hearings take center stage
Sep 03, 2018
The lawyers trying to prove Trump sabotaged the ACA
Aug 29, 2018
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp
Aug 23, 2018
Defending vaccines, with Paul Offit
Aug 15, 2018
Don Rucker wants to set health data free
Aug 08, 2018
Trump's steady march to remake the ACA, with Lanhee Chen
Aug 01, 2018
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Jul 25, 2018
The abortion fight, from then to now
Jul 18, 2018
MD Anderson's Ron DePinho on fighting brain cancer
Jul 12, 2018
What Brett Kavanaugh means for health care
Jul 10, 2018
Roundup: HHS and the migrant crisis, the ACA and bonus Atul Gawande Q&A
Jul 05, 2018
Roundup: The courts, Congress and the migrant crisis with Bob Carey
Jun 27, 2018
Bonus: Andy Slavitt and Cindy Gillespie on immigration, Medicaid, the elections and more
Jun 22, 2018
The fall of Theranos, with 'Bad Blood' author John Carreyrou
Jun 20, 2018
The rise of JUUL, with Tevi Troy
Jun 13, 2018
Sen. Bill Cassidy
Jun 06, 2018
Is Trump winning the war on abortion?
May 24, 2018
HHS Secretary Alex Azar
May 17, 2018
Trump's drug plan, explained
May 17, 2018
Building a better safety net with Veenu Aulakh
May 10, 2018
Talking Walmart, UnitedHealth, Amazon and more with John Gorman
May 03, 2018
Why Obama's Datapalooza is still thriving under Trump
Apr 25, 2018
Meet America’s next top insurance lobbyist
Apr 19, 2018
The (possible) Medicaid expansion next door
Apr 12, 2018
The new watchdogs trying to hold Trump accountable
Apr 05, 2018
‘Every first responder is also a survivor’: Puerto Rico, six months later
Mar 29, 2018
Inside the White House with Paul Winfree
Mar 22, 2018
Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson
Mar 14, 2018
How the industry (and this ex-Obama official) is reacting to Alex Azar's remarks
Mar 08, 2018
Why Seattle's health director is suing HHS
Mar 01, 2018
Religious freedom in health care and news roundup
Feb 23, 2018
Sam Quinones, author of 'Dreamland'
Feb 15, 2018
CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigns and Amazon-JPM-Berkshire Hathaway ramp up
Feb 01, 2018
The Alex Azar era begins and Providence St. Joseph CEO Rod Hochman
Jan 25, 2018
Karen DeSalvo and mini-news roundup
Jan 21, 2018
Live from JPM: Venture capitalist Bob Kocher
Jan 12, 2018
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Jan 04, 2018
BONUS: Ady Barkan, activist and ALS patient
Dec 18, 2017
Roundup: ACA enrollment, Doug Jones and Tina Smith
Dec 13, 2017
Roundup: Budget battles and mega-mergers
Dec 09, 2017
Roundup: Taxes, CHIP, the fate of HHS and fake news
Dec 01, 2017
Jeff Goldsmith on predicting health care's future
Nov 22, 2017
Roundup: Taxes and Mayo Clinic, ACA myths and Uwe
Nov 17, 2017
Sen. Michael Bennet on Medicare-X, making policy and more, plus ACA open enrollment with Josh Peck
Nov 09, 2017
Atul Gawande on Washington, writing and what really matters
Nov 02, 2017
Aaron Carroll on his path to the New York Times' front page
Oct 29, 2017
N.C. HHS Secretary Mandy Cohen and news roundup
Oct 26, 2017
Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser
Oct 20, 2017
Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard J. Tyson
Oct 07, 2017
Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann
Sep 30, 2017
Former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and news roundup
Sep 23, 2017
NARAL's Ilyse Hogue on abortion rights, Medicare-for-all and where Democrats go next
Sep 14, 2017
The politics of hospital spending and news roundup
Sep 08, 2017
Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and news roundup
Aug 24, 2017
Andy Slavitt on what's next for health care - and him
Aug 09, 2017
Nicholas Bagley on Trump’s legal threat to Obamacare and news roundup
Aug 03, 2017
Ben Wikler: ‘The Resistance’ isn’t futile
Jul 26, 2017
NYC health commissioner Mary Bassett and Chicago health commissioner Julie Morita
Jul 20, 2017
Dead bill walking?
Jul 14, 2017
Does the GOP bill pass this month? It's '50-50'
Jul 10, 2017
Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove on what he's telling his senator, and news roundup
Jun 30, 2017
The turning points to watch this week
Jun 26, 2017
Neera Tanden: GOP bill is 'moral outrage,' but Democrats will triumph in the end
Jun 22, 2017
She's a Medicaid expert. He's the ex-CEO of Apple. Here's how they see the GOP bill.
Jun 15, 2017
How the Senate's 'illusion of momentum' might give them the real thing
Jun 08, 2017
Jonathan Bush on what everyone gets wrong about health care
May 31, 2017
‘Only 23 million more uninsured’
May 26, 2017
POLITICO editor Carrie Budoff Brown on covering Trumpcare, Obamacare and this crazy news moment
May 18, 2017
Jon Favreau and Rick Wilson on bad bills and worse messaging
May 11, 2017
What's next for the GOP health bill, and Mario Molina on his surprise firing
May 05, 2017
Unpacking the GOP's health strategy with Ceci Connolly and Cynthia Cox
Apr 27, 2017
How Obamacare marketplaces are dealing with the zombie repeal bill
Apr 13, 2017
News roundup and Austin Frakt on how to become a nationally known health care expert
Apr 06, 2017
Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Charlie Dent on what's next for health care
Mar 30, 2017
Bonus roundup: The short life and quick death of AHCA
Mar 26, 2017
Zeke Emanuel on talking with Trump: 'This is an appalling bill'
Mar 22, 2017
News roundup: The GOP health bill and where Congress stands
Mar 20, 2017
Rep. Joe Kennedy on fighting for the ACA — even if it takes all night
Mar 16, 2017
AHA’s Rick Pollack and ALEC’s Lisa Nelson on the GOP reform bill
Mar 09, 2017
Obamacare: Where two insiders think the GOP goes from here
Mar 01, 2017
News roundup: Town halls, Trump's speech and where the ACA repeal fight stands
Feb 28, 2017
She raised the price of EpiPen. He says he wants to bring drug prices down.
Feb 23, 2017
Running CMS: What it's like, and what Seema Verma may do
Feb 16, 2017
PhRMA's Stephen Ubl on drug prices, lab coats (not hoodies), and talking with Trump
Feb 09, 2017
Harvard's global health leader on making America even greater
Feb 02, 2017
News roundup: Week 1 of the Trump administration
Jan 28, 2017
Stock trades and Senate attacks: Where Tom Price's nomination goes from here
Jan 17, 2017
Begun, the Trump health agenda has
Jan 12, 2017
News roundup: Obamacare update (and what we've missed while focusing on it)
Jan 10, 2017
One man is trying to repeal Obamacare. The other is trying to save it.
Jan 05, 2017
Steve Case: Trump's win was 'wake-up call' for health care investors
Dec 21, 2016
Meet the doctors who endorsed Tom Price — and the ones who call him a 'radical'
Dec 08, 2016
Trump loves him. But is Price right for health care?
Dec 01, 2016
Sketching out Trumpcare and saving Obamacare
Nov 22, 2016
The Trump era: Where health care goes from here
Nov 18, 2016
Obamacare is now endangered. But it's not dead yet.
Nov 09, 2016
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: How 'America's Doctor' sees opioids, gun violence and more
Nov 03, 2016
Harvard's Bob Blendon on what polling tells us about Obamacare and the election
Oct 27, 2016
Andy Slavitt on MACRA, Minnesota and more
Oct 19, 2016
How a doctor-turned-venture capitalist finds health care's investing opportunities
Oct 13, 2016
Health Affairs editor Alan Weil on shaping the policy debate
Oct 05, 2016
The White House drug czar on fighting addictions — including his own
Sep 28, 2016
Anne Filipic warns Obamacare doom-and-gloom can be self-fulfilling
Sep 21, 2016
Aneesh Chopra on why health care's data revolution has arrived
Sep 15, 2016
Obamacare’s CEO on what’s next after Aetna’s exits
Aug 18, 2016
Marilyn Tavenner on implementing Obamacare — and then lobbying to change it
Aug 10, 2016
Lanhee Chen on coming to terms with the rise of Trump
Jul 19, 2016
Kate Baicker on busting Obamacare myths
Jul 14, 2016
Sen. Lamar Alexander on why the next president needs to make a deal on Obamacare
Jun 29, 2016
What the GOP health plan really means, with Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Jun 23, 2016
Why the Part B fight is roiling Washington
Jun 16, 2016
Peter Hotez on how Zika is America's next disaster
Jun 09, 2016
Karen DeSalvo on how data will transform health care
Jun 02, 2016
Tom Frieden on Zika's unprecedented threat
May 26, 2016
Ron Klain on why we beat Ebola — but are losing on Zika
May 18, 2016
Chip Kahn on Harry, Louise – and Hillary
May 12, 2016
Farzad Mostashari on how government really works
May 05, 2016
Andy Slavitt on how CMS will win doctors' hearts and minds
Apr 27, 2016
Coming soon: POLITICO's Pulse Check
Apr 25, 2016