The NPR Politics Podcast breaks down the central policy issue behind the government shutdown: enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. We don't know when the federal ...

While Medicare and Medicaid have been an important part of the American health care system for six decades now, the programs still receive a certain amount of political scrutiny. The agency that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Most Americans enrolled in employer-sponsored commercial insurance ...