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Health economics

A woman is shown wearing a medical mask and carrying a bag while standing in front of doors with graffiti painted on them
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Pandemic exposes health inequities in vulnerable communities
Elizabeth Warren wears a red blazer and speaks with one hand in the air.
Health care reform: The ‘insurance company model’ is flawed, says historian
A woman with long hair and earrings smiles
Health & Medicine
These Chilean women joined thousands suing for discriminatory health insurance. Can reforms fix it?
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren each stand at their podiums on the debate stage
Health
Is Canada’s health care system a cure-all?
Hospital OR
Medicine
One surgeon suggests health care decisions in America are too often dictated by money
Health & Medicine
Obamacare health exchanges go live, so why aren’t the poor celebrating?
Global Politics
The doctor will see (all of) you now
Health & Medicine
Germans struggle to understand American resistance to healthcare reform
Health & Medicine
Poll finds vast majority of Massachusetts residents like Romneycare
Business, Economics and Jobs
Rationing toward sensible health care
Health & Medicine
Maternal mortality in Afghanistan
Global Politics
Health care as a human right
Business, Economics and Jobs
Lessons on universal healthcare
Health & Medicine
China’s far-from universal health care
Health & Medicine
Wealth and health in India
Polling on the Affordable Care Act Reveals Lack of Understanding and Pessimism
Arts, Culture & Media
The Rise of Medical Tourism
Global Politics
Why Germans Don’t Have A Problem With Mandated Health Care
Doctors Debate the Individual Mandate
Vermont Governor to Sign Single-Payer Health Care Bill
Conflict & Justice
Health care reform improves coverage for women
Health care reform: group consultations
Global Politics
Your responses to health care reform
Global Politics
A hospital administrator on health care changes
Global Politics
Minority communities and health care reform
Lifestyle & Belief
Health reform: helping pay the costs of elder care?
Arts, Culture & Media
Waiting for health care in Oakland, Calif.
Arts, Culture & Media
From the waiting room: eight hours vs. one hour
Conflict & Justice
Health care reform jumps major hurdle in senate
Global Politics
Public option cut as dems wrangle health care reform
Global Politics
Dem. Rep. Jim Clyburn on Ft. Hood, health care plan
Global Politics
Business takeout: should banks help pay for health care?
Global Politics
Fact Checking the Health Care Debate
Global Politics
Health Care Reform: People Who Like Their Coverage
Global Politics
Health Care Reform: Americans Abroad
Global Politics
Young Voices, Health Care Choices
Global Politics
The Dog Days of the Health Care Debate
Health Care Reform: Young Americans
Global Politics
Health Care Reform: What Doctors Want
Global Politics
The Elderly on Health Care Reform
Global Politics
Is Obama Abandoning the Public Option?
Health Care: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Global Politics
The Very Model of Modern Major Health Care System
Conflict & Justice
Deciphering the Health Care Numbers
Conflict & Justice
Health Care Reform: Change We Can Count On?
Business, Economics and Jobs
Finding Inspiration Abroad for Health Care Reform
Global Politics
A Congressman-Doctor Says No to Insurance
Global Politics
Why Employment-Based Health Insurance Is Ailing
Global Politics
Healthcare reform faces hurdles, but industry may be backing it finally
Conflict & Justice
Global attention on US health care battle
Conflict & Justice
Would health care reform stifle innovation?
Conflict & Justice
Foreign models for US health care
Business, Economics and Jobs
Wealth and health in India
Health & Medicine
Stan Brock