I’ve argued for years that health care is not a right because providing free health care automatically encumbers someone else to pay for it or to provide

Angela Haupt has been a health writer and editor for more than a decade. She was previously the managing editor of health at U.S. News & World Report, where she spent 11 years covering and editing wellness and conditions topics. She helped launch..

Few factors bear as heavily on the well-being of any state’s citizens as their overall health. In evaluating the best states for health care – one of eight categories driving the overall Best States rankings – U.S. News examined metrics reflecting ...

You’re a complex individual with unique needs. When it comes to taking care of your health and wellness, you need a healthcare provider who can take care of you from head to toe. To stay safe and healthy today and in the future, you need access to a ...

To better understand one of the most heated U.S. policy debates, we created a tournament to judge which of these nations has the best health system: Canada, Britain, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, France, Australia and the U.S. Related Article ...

It might be easier to make sense of the recent fatal shooting of an insurance CEO, an act with ominous overtones about health care costs and insurance coverage, if any one aspect of health-care finance in America had gotten dramatically worse. But what ...

Pregnancy care consists of prenatal (before birth) and postpartum (after birth) healthcare for expectant mothers. It involves treatments and trainings to ensure a healthy prepregnancy, pregnancy, and labor and delivery for mom and baby. Prenatal care helps ...

The health care access subcategory informs the best states for health care rankings and the overall Best States rankings. It comprises six metrics: child wellness visits, health insurance enrollment, adult wellness visits, adult dental visits, child dental ...