Health advocates and community members gathered in Washington D.C. in mid September to push the Biden administration to take additional action on medical debt in an event hosted by nonprofit Community Catalyst. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Community Catalyst hide caption
About 12 million Americans qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, and they face relentless red tape accessing health care. A bipartisan fix that could help them is in the works. Getty Images hide caption
Orange County Superior Court Presiding Judge Maria Hernandez says CARE Court will resemble the county's other collaborative courts, like her young adult diversion court, where compassion and science drive her decisions. April Dembosky/KQED hide caption
Dr. Terry Vester examines Charity Hodge at Vester's clinic in LaFayette, Alabama. Vester and her husband are the only primary care doctors in the community. Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News hide caption
Sharon Hudson (left) has advanced Alzheimer's. But she smiles and giggles when her daughter, Lana Obermeyer, visits at the Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Syracuse, Nebraska. Tony Leys/KFF Health News hide caption
SEIU nursing home workers rally outside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg in 2022. The union is praising a proposed rule released Tuesday that would increase staffing levels. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania hide caption
Residents and staff gather for a dance at the Ararat Nursing Facility in Los Angeles in April 2021. The pandemic exposed the dangers of inadequate staffing at nursing homes. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
President Donald J. Trump touted his plan to end the HIV epidemic during his 2019 State of the Union Address. The effort has sent $1.7 billion mainly to southern states. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A picket line outside of FOX Studios in Los Angeles. Hollywood actors have been on strike since mid-July; writers have been on strike since May. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Mandy Cohen testifying before a congressional committee as a leader of Medicare and Medicaid. More recently, the new director of the CDC headed North Carolina's health department. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Jason Weida is the secretary for Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, which has been named in a lawsuit. Phil Sears/AP hide caption
Roland Martin at the Essence Festival in New Orleans last month. The former CNN commentator moderated a panel on weight loss drugs. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images FOR ESSENCE hide caption
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo was a clear and down-to-earth explainer of what was happening during the pandemic, often on CNN and other networks. She's pictured here at a COVID press conference in April 2020. Andrea Mabry/UAB hide caption
As many as 24 million people across the U.S. are expected to lose Medicaid coverage over the next year, according to estimates by the health policy research organization KFF. Getty Images hide caption
Protestors rallied at the Statehouse in Indianapolis on July 25, 2022, in opposition to a bill to ban abortions in Indiana. After a protracted legal fight lasting almost a year, the state's highest court ruled the ban could go into effect as soon as Aug. 1. Ben Thorp/WFYI hide caption
President Biden delivers remarks on expanding access to mental health care in the East Room at the White House on Tuesday. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital company headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., had a huge data breach it acknowledged this month, exposing the medical records of 11 million people. Rusty Russell/Getty Images hide caption
This image, from a video produced by government safety researchers, shows a countertop worker using a machine with a spray of water that's intended to control dust. NIOSH hide caption
House Republicans passed a package of health insurance bills in June, but the reforms are not likely to become law while the Senate is controlled by Democrats. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption
Bridget Narsh at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Narsh's son has autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and ADHD. In 2020, he spent more than 100 days at Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility. The state billed the family nearly $102,000 for the hospitalizations. Eamon Queeney/KFF Health News hide caption
Howard Houlden got hospital-at-home care for covid, COPD and congestive heart failure. Though he has since died, his daughter, Lori Girard, says it likely extended his life and helped him enjoy himself. Lori Girard hide caption
The Food and Drug Administration has fully approved Leqembi, the first drug shown to slow down Alzheimer's disease. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Anti-abortion activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court during the 49th annual March for Life rally on January 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. The rally activists called on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which it did a few months later on June 24, 2022. Drew Angerer / Getty Images hide caption