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States begin living with Medicaid austerity

Novo tests new Wegovy pricing as competition intensifies

Hospitals feel the heat over anticompetitive contracting

Hospitals feel anticompetitive contracting heat

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GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war

GOP weighs health care cuts  to pay for Iran war

The steep cost of surrogacy

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Axios Macro

Consumers caught in triple stack of pain

China's rise threatens the drug world's status quo

Trump health vacancies offer chances to change course

How a vertigo scare changed my AI anxiety

Axios-Ipsos poll: Cost isn't discouraging GLP-1 use

Back to Health

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The U.S. health system faces critical questions about cost, access and equity. Technological advances and new discoveries about diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s are transforming patient care and reshaping public health.

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