Involuntary mental health commitment gets at one of society’s most delicate questions. Here's what patients, families and ...

Submitted by the Washington State Health Care Authority. In Washington, 82% of overdose deaths involved opioids in 2023 ...

A Kansas state law that revokes a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant is now being challenged in court. Three women, one of whom is currently pregnant, and two doctors ...

When a small Catholic hospital in California refused to provide an abortion that would end her miscarriage, Anna Nusslock felt her rights were being violated. Nusslock and California Attorney ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday warned that the U.S. Congress’ proposed Medicaid cuts would jeopardize health-care access for ...

“Medicaid is robbing the poorest Americans,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pronouncement at his Senate confirmation hearing this January doubled down on the idea that our country’s largest public health ...

CARSON CITY — The Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday considered Assembly Bill 461, legislation aimed at reinforcing the validity of advance health-care directives and ... in the ...

MinnesotaCare is a state-funded health care program operated by the Minnesota Department of Human Services that provides coverage to low-income residents. A bill passed in 2023 expanding the program ...

Cook County could lose $110 million in state funding under a proposal to cut health care for undocumented immigrants. Latino lawmakers are urging the governor to reconsider, warning the cuts could ...

This year, the state Legislature both limited reimbursements to health care systems and raised their taxes. Washington is already home to the third highest hospital occupancy rate in the nation ...

A PASSIONATE CROWD MADE A HOME ON THE CORNER OF UNIVERSITY DRIVE AND GOVERNOR ROAD FRIDAY NIGHT DURING A PROTEST OF PENN STATE HEALTH’S UPDATED GENDER AFFIRMING CARE POLICY FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH.

The agency covers 460,000 people — public employees, retirees and their families. A bill to fund it is stalled in Beacon Hill. The state agency that provides health care coverage to 460,000 ...