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Health care reform in the United States

Can a Health Care Mandate Reduce Disparities in Coverage?

This week the Supreme Court has been hearing arguments in a case against the Affordable Care Act. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, about 16 percent of Americans – around 50 million people – do not have health insurance. If the court upholds the health care law, however, that would change, with nearly all Americans […]

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Deciphering the Health Care Numbers

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Health care reform passed

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President Barack Obama is celebrating the passage of health care reform that he made the central goal of his presidency. As The World’s Jeb Sharp reports, this puts the United States much more in line with other industrialized countries.

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