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President-elect Trump continues to pick his new administration. He will nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz — known for The Dr. Oz Show on daytime TV — to head the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid.

Trans-rights activists protest outside the House chamber at the Oklahoma state capitol before the State of the State address, Feb. 6, 2023, in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma and 25 other states have anti-trans laws on the books.

Ringing in voters' ears in the final weeks of the presidential campaign was the tagline: “Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.”

The Ryan White program serves about half a million people with HIV, and 90% of them are successfully keeping the virus at undetectable levels. But will Republicans cut funding for the effort?

Yolonda Wilson is one of many people who shared painful stories about health insurance gone wrong on social media this week.

The outpouring of online rage following a health insurance CEO's killing has shocked some. Polling shows that people who really need their health insurance find it lets them down in fundamental ways.

NPR staff recommend 5 non-fiction books for reading over the holidays or anytime, really: "The New India," "Unshrinking," "We're Alone," "New Cold Wars," and "Between Two Sounds."

In the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing, there's been a lot of attention on the dysfunction of the health insurance industry.