Health

Follow PBS NewsHour’s complete coverage of Health and Medicine.

In the build-up to the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney, much of the health care discussion thus far has focused on options for reforming Medicare. But Medicaid, its counterpart for low-income and…

Protestors carry signs as they demonstrate against proposed cuts to Medicaid programs outside San Francisco city hall on Sept. 21, 2011. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The future of Medicaid -- the state-federal workhorse of the nation's health system that…