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Medicare is the primary form of health insurance for older adults in the U.S. Provided by the federal government, Medicare ...

Person for person, health care in the U.S. costs about twice as much as it does in the rest of the developed world. In fact, if our $3 trillion health care sector were its own country, it would be ...

Health misinformation can ruin lives and damage health services. Our health team fact checks claims about health including funding and delivery, and dangerous medical claims, and makes recommendations ...

How accurate are claims from President Donald Trump's executive order about gender-affirming care? PolitiFact has answers.

In 2024, USAID awarded a $2 million grant to an LGBTQ+ rights organization in Guatemala called Asociación Lambda. That grant was issued to "strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver ...

Payouts to shareholders of large publicly traded health companies more than tripled over the past two decades, new research ...

A new bill in the California Senate could help residents fight back against denials by health insurance companies. Sen. Scott ...

This is a precarious time for community healthcare centers that depend on reimbursements from the federal government. The ...