![A package of Ozempic at a hospital in Bonheiden, Belgium.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1690041807.jpg)
Time to Crack Down On Ozempic and Other Greedy Drug Prices Time to Crack Down On Ozempic and Other Greedy Drug Prices
Taking on Big Pharma is just what the (electoral) doctor prescribes.
Jun 20, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
![Thin crowd of anti-vaxxers protested on Times Square against vaccination mandates for many professions.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/EDITED-GettyImages-1235806111.jpg)
Why Don't Americans Believe in Science? Why Don't Americans Believe in Science?
When medicine doesn’t focus on prevention, anti-vaccination rhetoric flourishes. It’s time to address the system.
Nov 30, 2023 / Highlights / Philip Eil
![Home care workers rally at New York’s City Hall on October 18.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/unnamed.jpg)
Ban the 24-Hour Workday! Ban the 24-Hour Workday!
In some states—New York is one of them—it is still legal to hire someone for a 24-hour shift, but to only pay them for a fraction of those hours.
Nov 29, 2023 / Dawn Kikel
![President Joe Biden speaks at an event promoting lower healthcare costs in the East Room of the White House on August 29 in Washington, D.C.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GettyImages-1646830432.jpg)
Biden’s Bold Move on Drug Prices Gives the GOP Two Choices: Change the Subject, or Lie Biden’s Bold Move on Drug Prices Gives the GOP Two Choices: Change the Subject, or Lie
Not surprisingly, Trump opts for both.
Sep 1, 2023 / Jeet Heer
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The Private Equity Takeover of Hospice Care The Private Equity Takeover of Hospice Care
Half of all Americans now die in hospice care.
Jul 7, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
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The Collapse of This Texas Health Care Program Is Putting Women’s Lives in Danger The Collapse of This Texas Health Care Program Is Putting Women’s Lives in Danger
For low-income, rural, and uninsured women across the state, the Healthy Texas Women program means access to lifesaving medical care—and it may soon disappear.
May 22, 2023 / Julie Poole
![How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-1356429531.jpg)
How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer How the US Military’s Fertility Policies Are Leaving Women to Suffer
Antiquated and discriminatory rules around fertility treatments are making the struggle to have a child immeasurably more difficult for many military families.
May 18, 2023 / Britta Lokting
![Ady Barkan speaks on Capitol Hill](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ady-barkan-republican-tax-bill-ap.jpg)
How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare
Once corporations privatize every inch of the public provision of health care, we may never get Medicare back.
May 17, 2023 / Ady Barkan
![A mobile Covid-19 testing site in New York.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/covid-testing-times-square-149KB-gt-img.jpg)
What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic
However briefly, the pandemic showed us that such an American world is not only possible but right at our fingertips.
May 4, 2023 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
![A patient rests in a corridor waiting for a room at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in California on January 3, 2021.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/covid-hospital-foot-getty-1.jpg)
Why Do the Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest? Why Do the Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest?
Falling life expectancy is no accident—it is a direct result, and failure, of policy.
Apr 11, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel