Money and Policy

The prices were made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, which granted the health secretary the authority to negotiate on behalf of Medicare.

By Noah Weiland and Rebecca Robbins

The Biden administration said it would have saved $6 billion had the new prices been in effect last year.

By Noah Weiland and Rebecca Robbins

Here’s what you should know about federal and state programs to feed children, and what the two parties are saying.

By Kim Severson

The popularity of the Affordable Care Act has changed the political strategy of Republicans, who are no longer campaigning to end the law.

By Noah Weiland

As an influential committee leader and the majority leader in the New York Assembly, he led efforts, later embraced in Washington, to expand coverage.

By Sam Roberts

A document posted briefly to the court’s website suggested a majority of the justices would reinstate a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban.

By Abbie VanSickle

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on a government watchdog to investigate. Here’s what you need to know.

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta

By starting a discharge petition on legislation to codify the right to contraceptive access, Democrats aim to spotlight Republican opposition to the bill, part of a broader push to highlight the issue for voters.

By Annie Karni

Among those who could not complete the process of renewing their Medicaid coverage, Black and Hispanic Americans were twice as likely as white people to lose their health insurance, a new study found.

By Noah Weiland

A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-and-death decisions in a high-tech age.

By Michael S. Rosenwald