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Molina Healthcare is the IBD Stock Of The Day after closing a $110 million acquisition. Now, MOH stock is working on a seven-week flat base.

MACON, Ga. — As an abortion scandal rocks the campaign of Republican Herschel Walker, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock on Friday emphasized his support of abortion rights before a crowd in Middle Georgia.

Kentucky Medicaid program wins award for pandemic-era enrollment innovations

Laws banning abortion in many conservative U.S. states are expected to boost birth rates among adolescents, whose bodies often aren't built for safe childbirth, or for carrying a pregnancy to term.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — After a year of chemo and radiation, doctors told Penelope “Penny” Wingard in 2014 that her breast cancer was in remission. She’d been praying for this good news. But it also meant she no longer qualified for a program in her state that offers temporary Medicaid…

In late September, Michigan’s Republican attorney general nominee Matt DePerno erroneously compared the emergency contraceptive Plan B to fentanyl at a conference in Texas, suggesting his state should “ban the pill.” DePerno is not the first politician to propose limiting contraceptive access following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…

A look under the hood raises some interesting issues, both promising and concerning.

Cook County Board President Preckwinkle is offering bold spending plans, armed with roughly $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money. But she needs workers to pull these plans off, and faces more than 4,000 vacancies. “We’re working towards a more just, prosperous and equitable future,”…

New policies to keep medical bills from sinking credit ratings sound good but will likely fall short for many hit hardest by debt — especially Black Americans in the South, such as Penelope Wingard.

In their Wednesday debate, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Attorney General Derek Schmidt focused in on two politicians who were not on the stage and won’t be on the ballot in November — the president and a former governor.

Here's the central riddle of U.S. politics since the Great Depression: