Merrill Goozner

The White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History seeks to enforce Napoleon's maxim: History is written by the winners.

Politics

Whitewashing History

by Merrill Goozner July 9, 2026July 9, 2026

The White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History seeks to enforce Napoleon’s maxim: History is written by the winners.

GOP health care cuts are pushing millions off Obamacare and Medicaid, driving up the uninsured rate and raising costs for everyone.

Health Care

The Onrushing Uninsurance Crisis

by Merrill Goozner June 30, 2026June 29, 2026

Both Social Security and Medicare face exhaustion because more of the nation's income goes to the rich, and their growing share goes untaxed.

Economy

Income Inequality and the Trust Funds Shortfalls

by Merrill Goozner June 24, 2026June 24, 2026

Political Science: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listen during an Oval Office event on health care affordability, April 23, 2026. Kennedy’s HHS has become central to the administration’s campaign against research it deems ideological. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Government

Trump Escalates War on Science

by Merrill Goozner June 8, 2026June 5, 2026

Hospital prices continue to race ahead of price increases in other health care sectors. In the past year, so have hospital profits.

Health Care

Profiting From Inflated Hospital Prices

by Merrill Goozner May 14, 2026May 13, 2026

Consensus, Censored: Under Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya, pictured here testifying during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing in Washington in March, the CDC refused to allow publication of a study showing the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine in reducing hospitalizations.

Health Care

Censorship at the FDA, CDC

by Merrill Goozner May 8, 2026May 7, 2026

Influence Over Evidence: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan—pictured here in the Oval Office of the White House, April 18, 2026—both promote unapproved peptides.

Health Care

RFK Jr. and the Perils of Peptides

by Merrill Goozner April 22, 2026April 22, 2026

Neera Tanden, President and CEO, Center for American Progress (CAP).

Health Care

Half a Loaf From the Center for American Progress

by Merrill Goozner April 13, 2026April 13, 2026

Health Care

A Health Care Plan for the Midterms

by Merrill Goozner March 11, 2026March 11, 2026

Attention Abroad: U.S. President Donald Trump provides an update on the Attack on Iran at a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2026.

Health Care

Reform on Ice

by Merrill Goozner March 5, 2026March 5, 2026

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