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COVID-19 threatens global progress in fight against other communicable diseases 

Concerns are growing that the singular focus on COVID-19 is having a secondary impact — threatening years of progress in efforts to slow the spread of other, long-standing communicable diseases. 

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

Health & Medicine

Germans struggle to understand American resistance to healthcare reform

Health & Medicine

Maternal mortality in Afghanistan

Health & Medicine

Lessons on universal healthcare

Business, Economics and Jobs
The World

Why Germans Don’t Have A Problem With Mandated Health Care

Global Politics

As the US Supreme Court hears arguments on the massive health care overhaul, across the Atlantic Europeans are puzzled. Germans, for one, seem to agree that government-mandated health care is the way to go.

Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Health Care Law Today

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law today, kicking off a three-day proceeding.  The Affordable Care Act mandates an expansion of health insurance to 30 million more Americans within a decade, as well as for the ire it has roused in Republican lawmakers and citizens, alike. At the heart of the […]

Medicaid and Medicare Under Rep. Ryan’s Budget

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), unveiled his budget yesterday, proposing cuts of some $6.2 trillion over the next decade. Medicare and Medicaid will fundamentally change under Ryan’s plan  – with Medicare losing $389 billion, and $735 billion being cut from Medicaid. Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent details what parts of the budget will affect Americans the […]

The World

Health care reform improves coverage for women

Conflict & Justice

We speak with Marcia Greenburger, founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, about how insurance protection for women will change under health care reform.

The World

Fact Checking the Health Care Debate

Global Politics

To see just how America’s health care system really stacks up against other countries, The Takeaway speaks with Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton professor of economics and public affairs.