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Pills spilling from a prescription bottle.
Image: Mpelletier1, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Used with: Medicare drug plan premiums set to rise 50% for enrollees who stay put, KFF finds
The Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Used with: ACA open enrollment opens with benchmark premiums up 13% for 2027
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, home of the federal district court for Massachusetts.
Photo: 4300streetcar, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Used with: Judge strikes federal limit on Medicaid work rule exemption for medically frail adults
The Frances Perkins Building in Washington, headquarters of the Department of Labor.
Photo: US Department of Labor, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Used with: Labor Department rule makes pharmacy benefit managers disclose pay to large employers
Boxes of EpiPen and EpiPen Jr epinephrine auto-injectors.
Photo: Intropin, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Used with: An urgent care asked an uninsured patient for $400 before an epinephrine shot
A hemodialysis machine beside a treatment chair.
Photo: Vitaly Pospelov (Виталий Поспелов), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Used with: Medicare raises dialysis payments 2.7% for 2027, and patient coinsurance rises with it
A Centene office tower in Clayton, Mo., where the company is based.
Photo: Paul Sableman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Used with: Centene's marketplace membership falls to 3.4 million from 5.8 million a year earlier
Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, an HCA Healthcare hospital.
Photo: Loadmaster (David R. Tribble), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Used with: HCA puts third-quarter cost of patients who lost exchange coverage at $400 million
An exam room in a doctor's office.
Photo: Harrison Keely, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Used with: Doctors' offices owned by hospitals can bill 10 times more, Washington Post reports
The sign outside the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington.
Photo: G. Edward Johnson, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Used with: Proposed rule would hold back ACA subsidies until eligibility is verified
A waiting area at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans.
Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Used with: Half of working-age adults went without needed care because of cost, survey finds
An office worker at a desk.
Photo: Jadon Barnes, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
Used with: Workers' cost for family coverage rose 9% to $7,471 in 2026, KFF survey finds
The Portland Aerial Tram, which links Oregon Health & Science University's Marquam Hill campus with the South Waterfront.
Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Used with: Oregon hospitals doubled financial aid after a law required automatic screening
Assorted tablets and capsules.
Photo: freestocks.org, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
Used with: New drugs launched at a median net price near $257,000 a year in 2025, report finds
A waiting room at a medical clinic.
Photo: Harrison Keely, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Used with: Medicare proposal would cap costs for patients misled by wrong provider directories
The Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.
Photo: Daniel Schwen, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Used with: Illinois says its program has erased $1.4 billion in medical debt in two years
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Photo: Paul Sableman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Used with: Rush and Endeavor Health plan to merge into a 12-hospital Chicago-area system
The emergency entrance of Parkview Pueblo West Hospital in Colorado.
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Used with: Prices drove 90% of employer plan spending growth from 2019 to 2023, report finds
A blood glucose meter reading a test strip.
Photo: Roy Zuo, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Used with: High-deductible plan members paid up to 2.4 times as much for chronic care, study finds
Optum's headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn. Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Photo: Chad Davis, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Used with: UnitedHealth profit rises 75% as its Medicare Advantage rolls shrink by 935,000