Medicare Part D is an optional program to help people enrolled in the federal health program pay for prescription drugs. With annual expenses running to about $100 billion last year, it is the dominant insurer in the U.S. pharmaceutical market.

This explainer, in addition to providing an initial overview, addresses five aspects of the debate about the high costs of prescription medicines.

To help journalists report on Medicaid, we’ve summarized a few studies that can inform reporters about key debates happening about this program.

For reporters who are covering health care at the local or national level, it’s important to have a handle on how Medicaid works. Here are six things you should know.

To help journalists understand how the 2020 census will affect each state’s share of federal dollars, we’ve visualized fiscal year 2017 data for 40 of the largest census-guided programs.

To help you appreciate and explain how the 2020 census will affect federal programs on the national level, we created an interactive visualization tool.

Why the census matters and what it will mean for public health in the United States.

Patients seeking mental health care deal with hurdles such as incorrect phone numbers, month-long delays in scheduling appointments and psychiatrists who refuse to accept insurance.

“On average, people with disabilities have a lot more encounters with the health care system -- they need more health care,” says researcher H. Stephen Kaye.

Journalist’s Resource spoke to POLITICO's health care editor, Joanne Kenen, to clarify common areas of confusion in health care reporting.