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One of the empty beds in the Alliance Healthcare System hospital in Holly Springs, Miss., is seen on Feb. 29, 2024. The medical facility was initially approved by the federal government as a rural emergency hospital in March, 2023, requiring closing all inpatient beds and providing 24/7 emergency care. However, they have been denied the status and must now transition back to a full-service hospital. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Inflation, Ozempic predicted to jack up health care costs

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston. Drug regulators in Europe have found no evidence that popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to a higher risk of suicidal thoughts or actions. The European Medicines Agency regulatory committee announced the results of its review on Friday, April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Americans plugged into drugs to fight weight, diabetes

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Biden evokes patent power to force lower drug prices; heeds voter complaints over innovation costs

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A nurse prepares a syringe of a COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., July 19, 2022. U.S. health officials are proposing a simplified approach to COVID-19 vaccinations, which would allow most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Flu, other shots becoming a partisan matter, survey reveals

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2023, about proposed rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Biden’s claim of wrangling down health costs to run into biggest premium spike in nearly a decade

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse loads a syringe with a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Moderna recently announced early evidence that its updated booster induced BQ.1.1-neutralizing antibodies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Vaccine makers pick Senate fight over soaring prices; fall boosters cost up to $130

By Tom Howell Jr. and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 29, 2015, photo, pediatrician Charles Goodman vaccinates 1-year-old Cameron Fierro with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, or MMR vaccine, at his practice in Northridge, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ** FILE **

More parents want measles vaccine optional as COVID vax fatigue spreads to other shots

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are displayed during a vaccine clinic in Townshend, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the count Thursday as public health experts bemoaned President Joe Biden’s recent remark that “the pandemic is over.” (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP) ** FILE **

Americans don’t know much about new COVID-19 boosters, says survey

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Maria Assisi holds her daughter Mia, 4 as Registered Nurse Margie Rodriguez administers the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months through 5 years old on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at Montefiore Medical Group in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

More than 40% of parents with kids under 5 don’t want to vaccinate their children: Poll

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Vehicles, with patients waiting to take a COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test, line up at a testing tent during the Federal Emergency Management Agency's drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Pima Community College West Campus in Tucson, Ariz. on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. After a request from the Pima County Health Department, a drive-through testing site, funded by FEMA region 9, is offering free COVID-19 PCR self-swab tests from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. (Rebecca Sasnett/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

Many Americans think catching COVID-19 is inevitable, poll finds

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Patients wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a mobile vaccination station on 59th Street below Central Park, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Majority of un-boosted Americans see omicron as a compelling reason to get extra dose: Poll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, vials of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are seen at the Assad Iben El Fourat school in Oued Ellil, outside Tunisa. The European Medicines Agency said a booster dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine “can be considered” in people aged 18 and above. In a statement on Monday, Oct. 25, the EU drug regulator said its analysis had shown that a third dose given of Moderna’s vaccine - which is usually given in a two-dose schedule - at least six months after the second dose, led to an increase in antibody levels in adults whose levels were waning. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, file)FILE

Poll: 27% of parents will get kids 5-11 vaccinated ‘right away’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Flags sits between headstones at a cemetery in Michigan in this July 2021 file photo. (Gillis Benedict/Livingston County Daily Press &amp; Argus via AP) **FILE**

COVID-19 leading cause of death for people ages 35 to 54 in September, report finds

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Jackson State wide receiver J.J. Weeks, 19, closes his eyes as Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse Maggie Bass, left, gives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at an open COVID-19 vaccination site sponsored by the university and the medical center in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Majority of reluctant unvaccinated adults find COVID-19 shots scarier than the virus, poll shows

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Big Brother Healthcare Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Government-run health care is bad for business

By Sally C. Pipes

FILE - This undated file photo provided by NerdWallet shows Liz Weston, a columnist for personal finance website NerdWallet.com. (NerdWallet via AP, File)

Liz Weston: You may be entitled to free health insurance now

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet - Associated Press

Iowa governor pushes COVID vaccine as demand lags in areas

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

Only 29% of Americans older than 64 have received a coronavirus vaccine, according to a study. (Associated Press)

Study: Only 29% of adults over 64 have received coronavirus vaccine

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

A study found that 42% of Republicans are hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. They are the group that is the most hesitant to get the shot. (Los Angeles Times via Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Republicans are the most ‘vaccine hesitant’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 4, 2020, file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Partisans are bracing for a new health care war as Supreme Court makeup shifts

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times