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 ...

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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during a ...

That almost messianic obsession — which arrogantly defies the weight of decades of science supporting the benefits of ...

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

The Trump Cabinet nominee appeared to be out of his depth in response to questions that shouldn’t have been especially ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, concluded Thursday's ...