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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17
Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:50
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Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 21:56
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
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Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans. This week, reporter Alice Miranda...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 19:26
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 17:45
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
Caption: Liana Wolk (L) and Owen Marshall at their wedding in May 2019. Owen is one of 5 million Americans stuck in the “family glitch.” , Credit: Molly Haley
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 18:40
Caption: Liana Wolk (L) and Owen Marshall at their wedding in May 2019. Owen is one of 5 million Americans stuck in the “family glitch.”, Credit: Molly Haley
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
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Plus: How To Rock Your Employee Benefits, Dread The Money Talk With Your Aging Parents? Everything You Must Know Before You Get Married, and Alert!...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Winter Is Coming....Keep Your Money Safe, Why The Business Of Picking Stocks May NOT Be Dying, What Happens After The Election?

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Winter Is Coming....Keep Your Money Safe, Why The Business Of Picking Stocks May NOT Be Dying, What Happens After The Election? If You Flip Houses...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Plus: Can Early Retirement Be Bad For Your Health? Election Year Myth Busting: What's True And What's False

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Plus: Can Early Retirement Be Bad For Your Health? Election Year Myth Busting: What's True And What's False, Can Home Buyers And Sellers Be Friends...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Watch Out For The Taxes On Those Medals, Michael Phelps! The Next Big Bang In Real Estate Investing, How A Clinton Presidency Could Affect Your Fin...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Watch Out For The Taxes On Those Medals, Michael Phelps! The Next Big Bang In Real Estate Investing, How A Clinton Presidency Could Affect Your Fin...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Mural portrait of Esteban Cuaya-Muñoz at the Oakland Museum of California, by artist Brett Cooke
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: Student divestment campaigners at CU Boulder, Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers
Fossil fuels are a trillion dollar industry but environmentalists say they have a plan to pull the plug on the industry: divestment. The campaign t...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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When you’re trying to figure out a piece of information online, your search will typically bring you to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia about pr...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:56
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Zack Ford from Think Progress LGBT provides a quick survey of this week's major issues facing the LGBT community and those who want to persecute them,

  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
Caption: America's Cup on the San Francisco Bay
If you walked along the San Francisco waterfront recently, you may have noticed giant catamarans -- specialized, 72-foot long sailboats that whizz ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: Laundry day in Dharavi, Credit: Kristin McHugh for the Stanley Foundation
Kristin McHugh visits Mumbai's sprawling Dharavi neighborhood, Asia's largest slum featured in the Oscar winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 08:59
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Caption: India Gate, Credit: Kristin McHugh for the Stanley Foundation
Keith Porter reports on the global ambitions of the world's largest democracy.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 08:49