Healthcare Systems & Policy

Politico's Paul Demko looks at how three states — Washington, Mississippi and Idaho — are pursuing divergent paths under the new ACA landscape.

In Appalachia, a legacy hospital system is failing to keep people well and remain solvent. Can a new modernized health system take its place?

Decades of research have underscored the health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies. You wouldn't know that from recent U.S. moves at the World Health Assembly.

Puerto Rico was facing a health care crisis long before Hurricane Maria hit last year. The storm has made the problems much worse.

It has been very difficult to compare the quality of care delivered by California's Medicaid providers. A new effort seeks to change that.

A yearlong effort to obtain basic Medicaid provider data in L.A. was rebuffed. Some health care leaders shut their doors gently. Others slammed them shut.

The need for more affordable coverage is real, but association health plans have had a dismal track record through the years.

When a youth is accused of a crime in Kentucky, an adult has to make a choice in nearly every step that follows. And a disproportionate number of the youth denied a second chance are black.

It could be a big year for Medicaid expansion. Virginia is expanding its program to include single adults, a change made possible by Obamacare; a judge recently ordered Maine’s governor do so, and ballot initiatives in four other states could lead further expansions. But the biggest wave of change i

“This is really an issue that you can explore in your state no matter what,” said WSJ health policy reporter Stephanie Armour.