Alana Semuels

2 weeks ago | time.com | Alana Semuels

A new federal report issued by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission portrays children’s health as in alarming decline due to poor diet, chemical exposures, over-medicalization, a lack of physical activity, and much more. Certain industry groups, the American health care system, and parental choices are largely blamed—while socioeconomic factors that research has shown affects many of these issues are barely mentioned.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Alana Semuels

Credit - Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: Yuanyuan Yan—Getty Images, Billion Photos via Canva.com)Erin Massey is busy in her day job as a scientist at a biotech company. But recently, she’s had another job, too: trying to convince her insurer, Cigna, to pay for a medication that she needs for her insomnia. Premera, Massey’s previous insurer through another employer, covered the medication, and her doctor has deemed it medically necessary and has filled out numerous forms saying so.

4 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Alana Semuels

Glenn Fogel speaks onstage during the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2025 in New York City. Credit - Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME The world of travel has changed dramatically since Glenn Fogel first joined the company that would become Booking.com 25 years ago. Today, it’s almost unimaginable to go through a travel agent, and almost all travel plans are booked online.

1 month ago | time.com | Alana Semuels

Not long before the 2024 election, Dr. Casey Means wrote a letter to her Good Energy newsletter subscribers with a health-related wishlist for the next Administration. In it were priorities that echo those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services: investigating toxins in the food supply, incentivizing healthy food purchases with food stamps, replacing factory farming with regenerative farming.

1 month ago | time.com | Alana Semuels

As Congress eyes sweeping cuts to Medicaid, the health care program for low-income adults that serves about 20% of people living in the U.S., a new study has a sharp conclusion: cuts to Medicaid will cost lives. The study, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research on May 5, tracked nearly 40 million people who gained Medicaid through state-based expansions under the Affordable Care Act between 2010 and 2022.