RFK Jr.'s second Senate confirmation hearing focused on vaccines, Medicare, diversity, and science. Key Republicans were reticent to show support.

In a contentious confirmation hearing to become the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer ...

State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

North Carolina was the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Lambeth said lawmakers in some of the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s long record of doubting the safety of childhood vaccinations persisted as a flash point for him ...

A group of Idahoans are calling on the state's leaders to protect Medicaid as conversations around cuts in Washington D.C.

Democrats undermined public trust during the pandemic. Republicans can now reassure Americans that vaccines save lives and ...

Consumer sentiment fell in January for the first time in six months, according to U-M survey. What's next as Trump creates ...

Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician and key G.O.P. vote, joined Democrats in aggressively questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick for health secretary. He did not say how he would vote ...

The Senate Budget Committee voted on Thursday to advance Russell Vought, Trump's pick to lead the OMB, for a floor vote.