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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

Why have so many attempts to reform our market-driven health care system failed, and how might that history inform us about the challenges that lie ahead?

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These Chilean women joined thousands suing for discriminatory health insurance. Can reforms fix it?

Health & Medicine

Toxic Materials

Arts, Culture & Media
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An arcane law is preventing immigrants impacted by America’s nuclear testing from accessing health care

Conflict
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President Trump, how will you make health care affordable to gig and contract workers if you roll back the ACA?

Economics
Anu Partanen

This journalist never worried about health care — until she moved to the US

Lifestyle

Few things reveal the differences between the US and Finland as clearly as health care.

Former hospital

How the new health care bill could affect your Uber ride

Culture

The gig economy has exploded over the past decade. Could Paul Ryan’s new health care proposal halt that progress?

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President Trump, how will you cover needy families under your plan to replace Obamacare?

Global Politics

The new Republican new health care plan to replace Obamacare has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle — for different reasons.

Dr. Annelys Hernandez checks out Cynthia Louis at a Mobile Health Center at Florida International Univeristy on March 3, 2015. Louis is ineligible for health insurance because of Florida's decision to reject Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.

‘The waiting is tearing me down’ — low-income Americans struggle in anti-Obamacare states

Health

While the ranks of the uninsured in the US have dropped sharply under Obamacare, around four million low-income Americans are still left out of the program in states that did not expand Medicaid. And while those states wrestle with the federal government, ordinary citizens say they’re suffering.

Riffat Rahman, a health care advocate, conducts outreach about the Affordable Care Act in a Los Angeles neighborhood called Little Bangladesh.

One woman takes Obamacare’s promise to Bangladeshi immigrants

Health & Medicine

Nina Sharmin was once a new immigrant from Bangladesh herself, struggling to pay for health insurance. Now, she hits the streets to help other immigrants fill out the 32-page application for Obamacare.