Healthcare

Three million fewer people had Affordable Care Act plans in February compared to last year. Much of the drop is likely due to the end of the pandemic-era enhanced subsidies.

Fed up with rising healthcare costs, one New York union cut out the middleman and is on track to save tens of millions of dollars.

Nurses' unions in Michigan and New York City are winning contract language that gives them oversight of how AI tools are deployed in their hospitals.

As AI’s presence in the health sector continues to grow, unions representing nurses are fighting to give them a voice in how the technology is implemented.

A new cap on borrowing from federal student loan programs isn’t enough to cover the cost of many P.A. and advanced nursing degrees, advocates say.

On today’s program: why advocacy groups are filing lawsuits against a cap on federal student loans and the rise and fall of sustainable fashion.

Claire Keenan-Kurgan at Interlochen Public Radio chronicles how nurses unions are bargaining over the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

A “Marketplace Morning Report” special reporting series on diminishing access to rural health care services, how federal policy is making it more intense, and what can be done about it.

There are about 700 hospitals at risk of closure in rural communities around the U.S. What can be done about it?

Aetna and Cigna are among the insurance companies leaving the marketplace in some states.