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Author: BY REED ABELSON - Publish Date: August 31, 2021 at 11:58PM Health plans for state and local workers can opt out of the federal law requiring them to treat mental health like other medical conditions.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: June 22, 2021 at 12:26AM Readers decry the possibility that the church will refuse communion for the president. Also: The health care ruling; Joe Manchin; unvaccinated hospital workers; roadkill; dress for a funeral.

Author: BY LISA LERER - Publish Date: June 19, 2021 at 12:06AM The Supreme Court’s latest ruling moved the country’s debate over health policy into a new phase. Tough questions await both parties.

Author: BY MARGOT SANGER-KATZ AND SARAH KLIFF - Publish Date: June 18, 2021 at 12:28AM Republicans in Congress have largely abandoned efforts to repeal the law. With the latest Supreme Court ruling, health policy now shifts to new territory.

Author: BY REUTERS - Publish Date: March 24, 2021 at 06:44AM President Biden said on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, that Americans who need health insurance would have until Aug. 15 to sign up through Healthcare.gov.

Author: BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG AND ABBY GOODNOUGH - Publish Date: January 29, 2021 at 06:50AM President Biden ordered the reopening of Affordable Care Act exchanges and moved to restore coverage mandates and Medicaid plans undermined by his predecessor.

Author: BY MARGOT SANGER-KATZ - Publish Date: January 28, 2021 at 08:01AM The move will be announced on Thursday as part of an executive order describing administration policies on shoring up health insurance coverage, according to three people familiar with the details.

Author: BY PAUL KRUGMAN - Publish Date: December 8, 2020 at 07:00AM You shouldn’t be surprised that they’re still backing Trump.

Author: BY E. TAMMY KIM - Publish Date: November 5, 2020 at 07:23AM Greg Gianforte’s victory is another step in the Republicans’ ideological conquest of the American West.

Author: BY REED ABELSON - Publish Date: September 28, 2020 at 02:00PM Coverage is a major expense for employers, especially those in small businesses, as they deal with the pandemic’s economic fallout. Many may face end-of-year renewal deadlines that are harder and harder to afford.

Author: BY MARGOT SANGER-KATZ - Publish Date: February 11, 2020 at 07:46AM The president’s proposal can be read as a second-term policy blueprint. On the future of the Affordable Care Act, it’s awfully vague.

Author: BY PAUL KRUGMAN - Publish Date: December 24, 2019 at 06:57AM Republicans aren’t Scrooges — they’re much worse.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: December 20, 2019 at 08:40AM An appeals court, after rejecting the law’s insurance requirement, entertains the idea that the whole law should now fall.

Author: BY PAM BELLUCK - Publish Date: September 18, 2019 at 11:01AM New research suggests contraception and fewer pregnancies are more responsible for the decline than state laws restricting abortion.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: September 14, 2019 at 10:34AM In the United States, racial health disparities have been as foundational as democracy itself.

Author: BY MATT FLEGENHEIMER AND KATIE GLUECK - Publish Date: September 13, 2019 at 10:35AM The top 10 candidates took the debate stage together for the first time, as the time to draw contrasts begins to run out.

Author: BY NICK CORASANITI - Publish Date: September 13, 2019 at 08:25AM In a clash over their differing plans for Medicare, Julián Castro also told the former vice president: “I’m fulfilling the legacy of Barack Obama and you’re not.”

Author: BY NICK CORASANITI - Publish Date: September 13, 2019 at 08:25AM In a clash over their differing plans for Medicare, Julián Castro also told the former vice president: “I’m fulfilling the legacy of Barack Obama and you’re not.”

Author: KATIE GLUECK and KIMBERLEY McGEE - Publish Date: August 3, 2019 at 07:00AM After widespread criticism over attacks on Barack Obama at this week’s debates, Democratic candidates at a labor forum in Las Vegas took a very different tack.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: July 18, 2019 at 07:00AM And is “they” the solution to our constrictive gender binary?