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Comment on this storyCommentHelloo, good morning. Happy Friday! Reading this online? Sign up for The Health 202 to get scoops and sharp analysis in your inbox each morning. Today’s edition: In North Carolina, the GOP-controlled…

Gov. Tate Reeves last week axed two health care bills that passed the Legislature with bipartisan support and that health experts say could improve health care.  Senate Bill 2622 would have sped up the prior authorization…

President Biden’s budget proposal includes ambitious measures seeking to bring down health care costs, but the divided government poses a steep challenge to these proposals, and lawmakers have yet to indicate where they’re willing to…

Illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/AxiosFirst, it was passing the Affordable Care Act. Then, it was defending it. Then it was allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. But with those big boxes checked, it's not clear what congressional…

Part of President Biden’s new budget, released last week, aims to bolster the solvency of a key part of Medicare by raising taxes on those making more than $400,000 and lowering prescription drug costs. The government-run health…

back against pricey medical bills, shoddy care and medicine's woeful lack of access. But they don't. getty Virtual monopolies exist in almost every healthcare sector: from hospitals and health systems to drug companies and…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced $10 million in state funding is available to create a pair of statewide networks that youth and families will be able to rely on for behavioral health information, support and…

More than 8,200 New Yorkers are estimated to have tragically died from COVID-19 because they didn’t have health insurance coverage, according to a Families USA report. At least 2,050 of them were undocumented immigrants. The pandemic’s…

The concept driving the much-needed reform is straightforward: dental patient premium dollars ought to be spent on patient care. The formal statement of purpose in proposed legislation at the State Capitol is succinct and…

Hoda Kotb is back on TODAY!She returned to the show March 6 after she had been away for the past few weeks to tend to a personal matter. The TODAY co-anchor told viewers that her younger daughter, Hope, 3, had been ill, but is back home…