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Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, but it turns out Americans like most of it, a poll finds

August 18, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

Despite sharp partisan differences over the Affordable Care Act, Democrats and Republicans, including voters who backed President-elect Donald Trump, strongly support most of the law's key provisions, a new national...

The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., would see a substantial funding increase if the bill passed Wednesday is signed into law.

House approves sprawling bill that would expand medical research

August 21, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

The House overwhelmingly backed broad legislation Tuesday to increase federal support for medical research, advancing a long-anticipated bill that is expected to clear the Senate soon and get President Obama's...

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) is President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be Health and Human Services secretary.

Trump pledged to protect Medicare. His choice for health secretary has other ideas.

August 21, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump reassured voters during his insurgent political campaign that he would protect Medicare, Social Security and other popular federal assistance programs. But in tapping Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.)...

A man walks into an insurance office in Miami where people are signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act,

More than 300,000 signed up for Obamacare after Trump was elected; 53,000 more than last year

August 21, 2019 at 8:58 p.m.

Signups for health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act continued to surge this month amid anxiety about the future of the law under President-elect Donald Trump, according to the...

President-elect Donald Trump made the cost of prescription drugs a central part of his healthcare pitch while campaigning but has been silent on the issue since being elected.

Trump railed against drug prices. Now the industry’s allies help shape his agenda

August 21, 2019 at 8:57 p.m.

Donald Trump and his congressional allies are making big plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and overhaul other government health programs. But the president-elect appears to have downgraded plans...

A customer walks out of a Miami insurance office in December after shopping for a healthcare plan made available through the Affordable Care Act.

The states with the biggest Obamacare struggles spent years undermining the law

June 12, 2018 at 11:41 a.m.

As insurers exit Obamacare marketplaces across the country, critics of the Affordable Care Act have redoubled claims that the health law isn't working. Yet these same critics, many of them...

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Still no comprehensive Obamacare alternative from House GOP, five years on

August 21, 2019 at 6:51 p.m.

More than five years after taking the majority on a promise to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act, House Republicans have elected again not to advance a comprehensive alternative. Instead,...

Pope Francis shakes hands with Vice President Joe Biden at the Vatican on April 29, 2016.

Joe Biden spending his last year in office trying to help cure disease that killed his son

June 21, 2019 at 7:51 a.m.

A few months after Vice President Joe Biden's eldest son died of an aggressive form of brain cancer, he traveled to Philadelphia to see off Pope Francis after his first...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, shown earlier this week, on Wednesday released a plan titled "Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again."

Trump promised a ‘beautiful’ healthcare plan, but it’s pretty basic

May 14, 2019 at 5:59 a.m.

Donald Trump has at various times promised a healthcare plan that would be "beautiful," "terrific" and "unbelievable." But the healthcare outline his campaign released Wednesday mostly highlights standard, if vague,...

Researchers find more causes for higher death rates among middle-aged whites

June 21, 2019 at 3:40 p.m.

Higher-than-expected death rates among middle-aged white Americans are largely being driven by stagnant progress against heart disease and other common illnesses, according to new research into a crisis that is...

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