Category: NPR

As the number of people who inject drugs and share needles has soared, the rate of infection with Hep C has climbed too. Yet many drug treatment patients aren’t tested for the liver-damaging virus.

If implanted medical devices fail, patients and their insurers usually have to pay for repairs. That financial responsibility falls to them even when the problems were solely with the devices.

More than 2,000 miners in Appalachia are dying from an advanced stage of black lung. NPR and Frontline have found the government had multiple warnings and opportunities to protect them, but didn’t.

Congress told the VA to expand its caregiver program to include pre-Sept. 11 vets, but the VA has failed to meet a deadline in the law.

Booker is introducing a bill this week in response to an investigation by the Center for Public Interest and NPR. He calls drug firms’ infiltration into Medicaid’s decision process “nefarious.”

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear about the court ruling out of Texas last Friday that struck down the Affordable Care Act.

A federal judge in Texas rules the ACA is unconstitutional. What does this mean for American healthcare, and who will be affected?

A federal judge in Texas rules the ACA is unconstitutional. What does this mean for American healthcare, and who will be affected?

The White House makes more personnel moves as a government shutdown looms. A federal judge’s ruling threatens Obamacare. The latest in the sexual harassment case against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Steve Inskeep talks to Ezekiel Emanuel, an architect of Obamacare, about a federal district judge’s ruling Friday that the law is unconstitutional because of a recent change in federal tax law.