Health Oct 22 Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries How much is good health care worth to you? $8,233 per year? That’s how much the U.S. spends per person. Worth it? That figure is more than two-and-a-half times more than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich…
Health Sep 12 More Americans Insured: What’s Behind the Numbers? For the first time in four years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped in 2011. According to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 48.6 million people were uninsured last year, down from…
Health Aug 22 As Whooping Cough Rebounds in U.S., Infants at Greatest Risk As the worst whooping cough outbreak in more than half a century grips the U.S., health officials are saying that most adults and teens are woefully under-vaccinated. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowers explores what's behind the resurgence and its potential…
Nation Jul 20 HIV Stigma Lingers as Churches Battle Epidemic In two very different places -- Zimbabwe and Washington, D.C. -- Christian pastors have taken a leading role in the fight against HIV. But in both, some are wondering whether they should be doing more to help reduce the stigma.
Nation Jul 18 HIV Behind Bars: How Prisons and Jails Are Battling an Epidemic In two very different places - Washington, D.C., and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - correctional facilities are facing remarkably similar challenges containing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and treating its victims.
Nation Jul 18 The Forgotten Orphans, From D.C. to Zimbabwe In two very different places - one the capital of United States, the other an impoverished nation in sub-Saharan Africa - children who lost their parents to the HIV/AIDS epidemic struggle against similar challenges. Here are two of their stories.
Health Jul 05 How the Medicaid Expansion Could Impact Your State It was a seemingly simple concept. The United States would inch closer to universal health care by expanding the Medicaid program to about 17 million low-income people. The federal government would pick up 100 percent of the tab for the…
Health Jul 03 Health Reform Views: Most Ordinary Americans Not Budging Tea Party activist William Temple protests in front of he U.S. Supreme Court on the day the health care reform ruling was handed down, upholding the law. Read his opinions here and those of other Americans below. Word has…
Health Jun 28 How American Health Care Could Be Shaped By Supreme Court’s Decision A pro-health care reform demonstrator ties on a surgical mask outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 25. AFP photo by Jim Watson. Two years, three months and five days. That's how long it's been since the first health care…
Health Jun 28 Supreme Court Rules Health Care Reform Mandate Can Stand JULIE APPLEBY OF KAISER HEALTH NEWS | "I'm disappointed and shocked that Justice Roberts led the charge to uphold the constitutionality of the mandate and called it a tax," said Bill McCollum, who filed the first state lawsuit against…