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Oct 14

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Missouri’s Medicaid expansion aims to benefit low-income workers, but sign-ups still lag

By Lisa Desjardins

Missouri is now the 38th state to expand Medicaid to low-income residents as part of the Affordable Care Act. It's been over a year since voters approved it, and after many delays, the first few thousand people enrolled this month.

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Sep 30

Ban on ‘surprise’ medical bills on track for Jan. 1 rollout

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

Patients will no longer have to worry about getting a huge bill following a medical crisis if the closest hospital emergency room happened to have been outside their insurance plan's provider network.

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Aug 12

WATCH: Biden delivers remarks on drug prices

By News Desk

The president called on Congress to lower prescription drug prices Thursday.

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Jul 08

Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates – but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses the mark

By Elisa J. Sobo, Diana Schow, Stephanie McClure, The Conversation

Low vaccination rates among U.S. Black and Latino communities are caused by cultural factors and an inequitable health care system.

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May 18

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Examining the American Medical Association’s racist history and its overdue reckoning

By Yamiche Alcindor, Claire Mufson

The national calls to action over racial justice have brought new awareness of past injustices in many parts of our society, including the fields of science and medicine. Yamiche Alcindor speaks to Dr. Aletha Maybank, the American Medical Association's chief…

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Apr 15

Watch 9:54
What Canada’s universal health system could teach the U.S. about managing a pandemic

By William Brangham, Jason Kane, Claire Mufson

More than 30 million Americans have gone without health insurance in the last year. Other high-income nations cover their entire populations for a lot less money than the U.S. already spends. But does a universal health care system help save…

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Mar 10

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Leveraging the power of art to achieve ‘community immunity’

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

The pandemic has highlighted structural inequities within American life, including a disproportionate impact on Black communities and poorer neighborhoods and access to and attitudes toward the vaccine. A new national public health campaign is trying to reach some Black Americans…

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Jan 28

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Biden bolsters the Affordable Care Act, rescinds restrictions on reproductive rights

President Biden on Thursday focused on his campaign pledge to strengthen the Affordable Care Act. The president also rescinded the so-called "global gag rule" that bars U.S. funding for health groups abroad that offer abortion counseling, and he took steps…

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Jan 28

Watch 6:50
What impact will Biden’s executive orders have on health care?

A key part of one of the executive orders signed by President Biden Thursday will reopen enrollment for the Affordable Care Act. Biden's other executive action will revoke a policy that barred funding for groups overseas that performed abortions or…

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Jan 08

Watch 6:51
U.S. vaccination campaign struggles to keep pace with infections

The death toll from COVID-19 has passed 365,000 in the U.S. with 130,000 people hospitalized with it now. But the best hope for moving past the pandemic -- mass vaccinations -- is going slower than had been expected. Dr. Paul…

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