UnitedHealth’s Obamacare exit won’t hurt system but is a PR blow, say experts

The practical impact of the US’s largest health insurer quitting insurance exchanges created by Obamacare is small, but it adds fuel to critics’ arguments

Americans don’t need single payer healthcare to get universal coverage

Bernie Sanders, like a lot of progressives, conflates European-style healthcare with the UK system. But either his plan or Clinton’s can bring about real reform

The high rate of uninsured Latinos isn’t surprising – it’s business as usual

A health insurance disparity existed before the Affordable Care Act, and the government should have seen that as evidence of a need to work differently

Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

The number of uninsured Americans decreased by 8.8 million in 2014, according to poverty measure data released by the US Census bureau

Medical records must stay private – even for prospective presidents

There’s no reason to pretend that perusing a candidate’s medical records will obviate the need for a vice president to move into the Oval Office

Will the US ever pass a new chemical safety law?

Senators have introduced dueling bills to revamp a 39-year-old law regulating chemicals in the US, pitting environmentalists against businesses

Women’s bodies can’t perform magic. Someone please tell Republicans

One congressman this week thought that if women swallow pills, they end up in their vagina. The GOP still knows nothing about female anatomy.

Republicans hope latest anti-Obamacare bill will be first to reach president’s desk

Decision to hold another seemingly meaningless vote comes ahead of more serious threat to the Act – the supreme court’s hearing of King v Burwell case

Do you really think your fat joke about Chris Christie is funny?

Marianne Kirby: We get it: you think the New Jersey governor is stupid because he’s overweight like so many of the rest of us

I have a preexisting condition. So what happens if Republicans really repeal Obamacare?

Nell Boeschenstein: I have the BRCA1 breast cancer mutation. I also have a file of medical bills that my insurance currently covers because of the law the GOP promises to rescind