Dec 29 Watch In India’s Crowded Capital, Crisis Looms Over Limited Water In the first report of a year-long partnership with National Geographic magazine examining population issues, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from New Delhi, where rapid and unplanned population growth is exacerbating a shortage of water. Continue watching
Dec 29 Ray Suarez Responds to Critics of Cuba Series By Ray Suarez Cuba -- its past, present and future -- sits comfortably in a category, along with abortion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and now global climate change, of difficult stories to tell. No matter what the reporter writes, he or she is going… Continue reading
Dec 29 India Dispatch: Thriving Development Spawns Water, Resource Worries By Fred de Sam Lazaro Boy drinks from water tanker in India. (Photo by Nicole See) NEW DELHI, India | If there are water wars in the future, conservationist Jyothi Sharma thinks they'll happen just outside her apartment in an upper-middle class enclave in Delhi's… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch California Forges Ahead Implementing Health Reform Changes Spencer Michels looks at how the nation's most populous state is moving ahead on the new federal health care law. Continue watching
Dec 28 In California, Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform While some parts of the nation are figuring out how to block national health care reform or repeal the law, California has plunged headfirst into making it work. The Republican governor and the Democratic legislature are cooperating to smooth the… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch States Have Much Discretion to Speed, Slow Health Reform’s Effects While many aspects of the federal health reform law don't take full effect until 2014, states can choose whether to speed up or slow down some of the sweeping changes to the U.S. health care system. Margaret Warner gets some… Continue watching
Dec 27 Watch In Wisconsin, Political Battle Brewing Over Shaping Health Reform Law Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from Wisconsin, where a Republican sweep in the midterm elections is adding a layer of complexity to the implementation of the federal health care reform law. New resistance is cropping up in the Badger… Continue watching
Dec 27 Questions Over Health Care Reform as Wisconsin Moves From Blue to Red In Wisconsin, the Republican party brought home landslide victories in November -- the state went from "a sea of blue to a sea of red," as the Racine Journal-Times described it, as Republicans won the governorship and control of… Continue reading
Dec 27 Shortage of Cholera Vaccine an Obstacle in Haiti Response By Talea Miller Health experts are calling for the creation of a cholera vaccine stockpile so the vaccine can be deployed in future cholera outbreaks, like the one still spreading in Haiti. Continue reading
Dec 24 Health Reform Watch: Insurer Rate Review; Debate Over ‘Lie of the Year’ New Scrutiny for Insurers The big news of the week was rate review: Beginning next year, insurers who want to raise their rates more than 10 percent will face new government scrutiny, according to regulations the Obama administration released this… Continue reading