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Byline: Ahjané Forbes and Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY The free COVID-19 tests the federal government recently rolled out will expire soon, but there is an explanation. Two weeks ago, the [...]

Byline: Angela Hart, KFF Health News States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment: using scarce public health insurance money to house the poorest and sickest [...]

Byline: Stephen Elliott, Stateline NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Lawmakers in at least 11 states have sought to loosen child labor laws to help employers fill empty jobs, even as federal officials [...]

Byline: Ken Tran, USA TODAY New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on President Joe Biden's administration to ignore a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that suspended the [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Facing pressure from his party to act more aggressively to safeguard abortion access, President Joe Biden announced steps his administration is taking, including [...]

Byline: Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY More than 1.6 million vaccines to combat monkeypox will be released in the United States throughout the rest of the year, and anyone possibly exposed [...]

Byline: Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY As Americans struggle to grasp the rapidly changing abortion laws across different states, the Biden administration unveiled a plan to support access to abortion and [...]

Byline: Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY The Biden administration Tuesday announced a major effort to help people with long COVID-19, including providing insurance coverage, expanding support for clinics and enhancing research [...]

Byline: Dr. Jerome Adams, Former U.S. surgeon general I remember being at the White House in March of 2020. We were frantically trying to figure out how close the U.S. [...]

Byline: Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY Health policy advisers to President Joe Biden cited a USA TODAY investigation into nursing home care during the pandemic as evidence of a troubled industry [...]

Byline: Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is awarding nearly $1 billion to community health centers across the nation, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. [...]

Byline: Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Liberal lawmakers will introduce legislation this week that would give the Department of Health and Human Services the authority to create federal eviction [...]

Byline: Brett Molina and Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY At bars, you might be asked to show your ID. If you visit Costco, you can't get in or buy anything without [...]

Byline: Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Two weeks into Joe Biden's presidency, his Department of Health and Human Services announced it was opening a temporary influx facility to house [...]

Byline: Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times, USA TODAY NETWORK PECOS, Texas - Maria Baeza Valeriano opened her front door to the view of a closed-down hotel and an oil workers' [...]

Byline: Savannah Behrmann and Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - After touring a controversial migrant facility in Texas on Friday, a pair of Republican senators told USA TODAY they were [...]

Byline: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY A federal program charged with compensating people for serious side effects from COVID-19 drugs and vaccines did not pay or reject any claims during the [...]

Byline: Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's administration faces a growing issue at the U.S.-Mexican border, where an increasing number of migrant children seeking asylum are detained. [...]

Byline: Aleszu Bajak and David Heath, USA TODAY Operation Warp Speed officials thought they had a futuristic solution to help ration COVID-19 vaccines so those most at risk would get [...]

Byline: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY The most common injury from errant vaccine shots might no longer be paid through a federal program because of a rule change ushered in during [...]

Byline: Courtney Subramanian, and Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Thursday took initial steps to expand health care coverage and reverse some of the policies of [...]

Byline: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY In-person schooling can be safe, U.S. health researchers argue, but it requires schools and their surrounding communities to commit to a slew of public health [...]

Byline: Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY The Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care, plans to start publicly reporting next year on hospitals with [...]

Byline: Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein, USA TODAY By mid-February, some of the nation's top health care officials were privately expressing alarm over evidence that the coronavirus was spreading from [...]

Byline: Alan Gomez, USA TODAY The Trump administration official in charge of caring for undocumented minors separated from their parents at the border said Thursday that his agency must reunite [...]

Byline: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY A year after steep cuts to a key Affordable Care Act outreach program, the Trump administration has remained quiet on how much it will fund [...]

A recent Arizona Republic column picked up by USA TODAY, 'The feds lost -- yes, lost -- 1,475 migrant children,' misrepresents a serious challenge for our immigration system. When unaccompanied [...]

Byline: Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY After news reports that the government couldn't account for nearly 1,500 immigrant children, some people wondered how this could happen -- and who was at [...]

Byline: Jayne O'Donnell, and Laura Ungar, USA TODAY Government regulators are backing down from many of their toughest requirements for doctors' and hospitals' use of digital medical records, just as [...]

More shopped for health care than auto-enrolled More than 8.8 million consumers selected a plan or were automatically re-enrolled through HealthCare.gov between Nov. 15, 2014 and Feb. 22, Department of [...]

Byline: Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY Hospitals will have to speed up changes in how well they treat Medicare patients or face lower payments under plans announced Monday by the Department [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY President Obama extended the health care exchange deadline for those who start the process before Monday's deadline, Health and Human Services officials said late Tuesday. [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Weise, @eweise, USA TODAY This year's flu season is now in full swing. Nationally, people are beginning to be hospitalized and die because of the flu, which is [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY, The federal government asked insurers to grant people extra time to buy health insurance to gain coverage by Jan. 1. 'There's still ample time for [...]

Byline: Jayne O'Donnell, and Annika McGinnis, USA TODAY More than a month after HealthCare.gov and 15 state-based exchanges opened for business, consumers and even physicians are finding it isn't easy [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, @KellySKennedy, USA TODAY A high number of visitors to the new federal health insurance exchange site Wednesday caused the system to crash or cause prospective insurance customers [...]

Byline: David A. Zubik Last August, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a mandate requiring religious institutions to facilitate activities that violate their religious and moral convictions. The [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY A new report shows costs vary as much as 700% for some preventive examinations, and as the federal health care law increases demand for those [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY Katrice Bridges Copeland used to defend pharmaceutical company executives when their companies were accused of fraud. But when she saw that Pfizer, after being accused [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY Premiums for the Medicare program that allows recipients to choose private insurance have dropped an average of 7% while enrollment has grown by 10%, according [...]

Byline: David Jackson and Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY President Obama said Thursday that he supported the Department of Health and Human Services overruling an FDA decision to allow an emergency [...]

Byline: Howard Gleckman The Obama administration blundered when it abandoned the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national voluntary long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 [...]

Byline: Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY A proposed federal rule would require hospitals, doctors' offices and health insurers to tell patients of anyone who has accessed their electronic medical records, if [...]

Byline: Alison Young Some provisions of the nation's new health law that began taking effect this week come with a catch: They don't apply to plans existing before March 23 [...]

Byline: John Fritze WASHINGTON -- The debate in Congress over President Obama's health care law is done. The battle over how to carry out the law is just getting started. [...]

Byline: Liz Szabo Canada's proposed ban on a hormone-like chemical in baby bottles has spurred U.S. retailers and legislators to try to phase out use of the ingredient, called bisphenol [...]