Aug 04 Watch ‘Made in India’ Examines International Journey Through Surrogacy Process In "Made in India," filmmakers Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha follow the journey of an infertile Texas couple and the Indian surrogate who gives birth to their children. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently… Continue watching
Aug 04 Reporter’s Notebook: India’s New Baby Boom By Fred de Sam Lazaro Indian surrogate mothers. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro Thursday on the NewsHour, you'll see an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple and their Indian surrogate. It's part of… Continue reading
Aug 04 How Will Debt-Ceiling Deal Affect Medicare for Patients, Doctors? Medicare is one of the programs that may be targeted for funding cuts. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images At least one sector of the economy seems to have boycotted the national sigh of relief that accompanied the 11th-hour… Continue reading
Aug 04 Panetta to Address Defense Cuts; Salmonella Sparks Turkey Recall By News Desk Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. File photo by Getty Images. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will hold his first press conference Thursday since he took on the head the job at the Pentagon after the retirement of Robert Gates… Continue reading
Aug 03 Haiti Braces for Storm, Cholera Surge By Talea Miller Cholera patient in Haiti. Photo by American Red Cross. A tropical storm bearing down on Haiti threatens to make daily life more miserable for tens of thousands homeless still living in tent camps and could deepen the cholera epidemic that… Continue reading
Aug 03 ‘Made in India’ Explores the Business of Surrogacy, From America to India From the film, "Made in India," by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha. On Thursday's NewsHour, we feature an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and… Continue reading
Aug 02 Health Insurance Exchange 101 EmbedVideo(1155, 514, 320); It seems like a simple idea: create new marketplaces called "exchanges" where consumers can comparison shop for health insurance, sort of like shopping online for a hotel room or airline ticket. But, like almost everything… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch USAID Chief: Famine in Somalia ‘Worse Than You Can Imagine’ In a new effort to alleviate the suffering in famine-stricken Eastern Africa, the U.S. government eased its restrictions on providing aid to Somalia -- aimed at sanctioning al-Shabab -- in hopes of getting more food to starving people. Margret Warner… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Utah’s Health Insurance Experiment Built Around Small Businesses Under the federal health care reform law, all states will be required to set up a health insurance exchange starting in 2014. Betty Ann Bowser reports on one state that is ahead of the game, and how the new system… Continue watching
Aug 02 Questions About Health Insurance Exchanges? Ask Secretary Sebelius On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour broadcast, we heard from health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser about Utah's health insurance exchange. Online, we posed our own questions to Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News. But now is your chance to… Continue reading